Comments on: GNOME Power Manager unstableness

By: Trial Lawyers

Trial Lawyers — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:39:11 +0000

Glad I stumbled into this article! Finally, got what I was looking for to put on my school report

By: hughsie

hughsie — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:37:35 +0000

Adam, even with the 2.26.2 build from koji?

By: Adam Williamson

Adam Williamson — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:08:35 +0000

Richard – I take it you’ve seen the several responses on the fedora-test-list thread and in the bug report saying the git build I did hasn’t fixed the problem for them?

By: hughsie

hughsie — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:25:40 +0000

@Michael: We did merge DeviceKit-power support in 2-25. And a lot of those changes happened only in 2-27, not stable branches,

By: hughsie

hughsie — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:38:52 +0000

@James, thanks for that — the bug is in the xserver and we currently work around it in gnome-power-manager by setting a very small idletime alarm after a dpms state change. Hopefully it can be fixed in the X server without too many problems.

By: James

James — Sun, 31 May 2009 18:23:48 +0000

I don’t know if it’s useful information to you since you’ve probably figured this out by now, but if you look at the source for the xprintidle command, you’ll find their workaround for the DPMS bug. I’ve also written a python extension to get the correct idle time using that code if you’re interested.

By: Patryk "patrys" Zawadzki

Patryk "patrys" Zawadzki — Sat, 30 May 2009 10:07:17 +0000

Adam:

I’ve got it to work just after posting the first comment. I’ve tried to post the the links two commits to devkit-power that are enough to make g-p-m fully build and work but it seems the spam filter ate them.

Richard:

I can confirm git master fixed the blackouts for me. Feel free to mail me if you need any harware info.

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By: Adam Williamson

Adam Williamson — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:51:22 +0000

for anyone on Fedora 11 (or, probably, 12…), here’s some packages:

http://adamwill.fedorapeople.org/gnome-power-manager/gnome-power-manager-2.27.1-0.4.20090529git.fc11.i586.rpm

http://adamwill.fedorapeople.org/gnome-power-manager/gnome-power-manager-2.27.1-0.4.20090529git.fc11.x86_64.rpm

http://adamwill.fedorapeople.org/gnome-power-manager/gnome-power-manager-2.27.1-0.4.20090529git.fc11.src.rpm (just the source in case anyone wants it)

By: Adam Williamson

Adam Williamson — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:01:48 +0000

I have the same issue as Patryk.

Patryk, the offending commit is this one:

http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gnome-power-manager/commit/?id=90000eb88dbc4ef404f6be0940a0b64572c588ff

for a quick hack, grab that diff and apply it as a reverse patch to your build. (there’s probably a ‘proper’ way to do this with git’s awesomeness, I dunno what it is though ;>)