Natty and Power Management Question

[zenarcher]

I seem to have a minor annoyance with Natty and I'm not sure if it's just an Alpha issue, or if I'm not doing something I should. I thought maybe someone could help me determine what it is.

I have Natty Alpha 1 installed in two systems at the moment. All updates are current, although the issue has been present since I first installed. What I have is that after a few minutes of being idle, my monitor goes into sleep mode. It wakes right back up, as soon as I move the mouse.

I have disabled the screensaver through System Settings. I have also gone into Power Management in System Settings and unchecked the boxes for Screen Energy Saving and Dim Display, but still the problem persists. I'm not sure if I'm missing some configuration setting somewhere or what. Is anyone else experiencing this issue? Or, is there a way to prevent the monitor from going to sleep. Wasn't an issue until I started playing with Natty.

Thanks,
zenarcher

[Rog131]

Re: Natty and Power Management Question

Maybe ? > Topic: [SOLVED]video standby every 10 minutes when mouse is not used (watching a video)

[zenarcher]

Re: Natty and Power Management Question

Well, here's what I'm getting with that command. Odd...it's not happened before until Natty Alpha 1...........

zenarcher@stanmain:~$

 xset q
Keyboard Control:
 auto repeat: on  key click percent: 0  LED mask: 00000000
 XKB indicators:
  00: Caps Lock:  off  01: Num Lock:  off  02: Scroll Lock: off
  03: Compose:   off  04: Kana:    off  05: Sleep:    off
  06: Suspend:   off  07: Mute:    off  08: Misc:    off
  09: Mail:    off  10: Charging:  off  11: Shift Lock: off
  12: Group 2:   off  13: Mouse Keys: off
 auto repeat delay: 250  repeat rate: 30
 auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf
            fadfffefffedffff
            9fffffffffffffff
            fff7ffffffffffff
 bell percent: 50  bell pitch: 400  bell duration: 100
Pointer Control:
 acceleration: 20/10  threshold: 4
Screen Saver:
 prefer blanking: yes  allow exposures: yes
 timeout: 0  cycle: 600
Colors:
 default colormap: 0x20  BlackPixel: 0  WhitePixel: 16777215
Font Path:
 /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType,built-ins
DPMS (Energy Star):
 Standby: 21600  Suspend: 32400  Off: 43200
 DPMS is Enabled
 Monitor is On

Anyone have any thoughts on these settings?

By the way, I went into System Settings again to Power Management and set Dim Display and Screen Energy Saving to 360.....and now, at least the monitor isn't going to sleep after a few minutes. But, it seems, if you uncheck the boxes, it still goes to sleep after a few minutes.

Thanks,
zenarcher

[zenarcher]

Re: Natty and Power Management Question

It seems this is a bug, as well and has been reported in KDE bugs.

Regards,
zenarcher

[zenarcher]

Re: Natty and Power Management Question

The latest KDE updates last night fixed the sleeping monitor issue. Now, if I could only get the Atheros wireless to stay connected more than a few minutes. After a matter of a few minutes, the wireless dies and I get the screen prompting me to enter the WPA2 password again. If I do, the wireless attempts to connect, but will not. The only way to get wireless back is to reboot the system.

Cheers,
zenarcher