Monitors Won't Sleep in TwinView Mode (Ubuntu Jaunty / gnome-power-manager)

[basskozz-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (BassKozz)]

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:44 AM, ref <tbs-Gb/NUjX2UK8 at public.gmane.org> wrote:

>
> Is it possible to bypass the KVM, even for 20 minutes, just to make sure
> sure sure it is not the KVM ? regardless of the screensaver test ?
> I am using dual monitor with twin-view and an NVIDIA card and the
> monitors do go to sleep....
> Video card : NVidia GeForce Go 7600
> Hardware/OS : HP dv9000 running Ubuntu 9.04
>
>
Ok, I just tried it w/out the KVM... still doesn't work :(
Also when I previously mentioned that I've tested these monitors on other
rigs (also using Ubuntu), I should have also said that I was still using the
KVM when I tested them, and they work fine... However the rig that I am
using for my main computer is the one that is having the problems (of course
it would have to be that way), the other rigs are just test beds or rigs
that I rarely have to access.

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Ben Eisenbraun <bene-Gk2boCrsRs1AfugRpC6u6w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> I have the same issue on 64-bit Hardy.  I did some research a few months
> ago when it started happening, and I was going to send you some links, but
> then I realized that the bug reports I had read...
>
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554247
> >
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/275308
>
> Were the ones that you opened.  :-/
>
> I did not find a fix.  The workaround I ended up using was having a script
> like this:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> sleep 2
> xset dpms force off
>
> Linked to a button in the toolbar, and when I get up to go away from the
> computer, I punch the button.  Not very elegant, but since I'm trained to
> lock my workstation at work when I walk away from it, it wasn't the hardest
> habit to pick up at home.
>
> Since 'xset dpms' can sleep the monitors, this seems like it's probably a
> GNOME bug.
>
> -ben
>
> --
> character is fate.                                     <heraclitus>


Thanks for the idea Ben, but wouldn't you know it, "xset dpms force off"
doesn't work either.
See: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554247#c4
All that command does is turn on my screensaver "blank screen"... but the
monitors are still in Active (Non-Sleep) state.