Power down of monitor occurs during active use

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 08:47 -0700, stan wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 16:05:17 +0100
> Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Check out this bug. Its affecting quite a few people.
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501601
> 
> Thanks for the link.
> 
> That seems similar to the behavior I'm seeing, but I have a crt, and it
> doesn't seem to happen randomly for me.  It only seems to happen if the
> screensaver activates because the computer is idle, and I then
> reactivate the screen before power save happens.  The power save then
> seems to happen on schedule, even though the computer is no longer
> idle.  They are currently set to 15 min for idle, 17 min for
> powersave.  The put computer to sleep value is currently 1 hour.
> 
> I'll lower the values on everything to a minute and three and see if I
> can reproduce it.
> 
> Conversely, I'll change the values back to the original values they were
> set at, where it never happened, and see if it stops happening.  
> put computer to sleep when inactive for - never
> computer is idle after  - 1 hour, activate screensaver
> put monitor to sleep after - 30 minutes

Just to note, from your description it does indeed sound like a
different issue.

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