Rawhide and screen powerdown

Adam Williamson adamwill at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jan 19 20:13:33 UTC 2015


On Mon, 2015-01-19 at 15:04 +0000, Russel Winder wrote:
> I have been giving Rawhide a whirl, on the grounds that it is a 
> rolling release (fully cognisant of the explicit danger of using 
> it). The most immediate issue for me is that screen power management 
> doesn't appear to work. After the "screen blank" time, the screen 
> blanks, but the screen is not powered off as with other 
> distributions, so the screen is blanked but on full power. Often the 
> "screen saver" screen then comes on and remains on, it doesn't blank 
> after the "screen blank" period.
> 
> Is this as expected or is there a switch or something that I have 
> failed to attend to?



It wouldn't be expected, but it could be hardware dependent. I'd file a
bug if I were you, probably against gnome-settings-daemon to start, 
including 'journalctl -b' output as root covering the time the idle 
timeout kicks in at least.
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