Screen dims and shuts off constantly:

jamison20000e · 01-23-2014, 04:28 PM

plugged in or not, even when I am typing or using the touchpad (comes back on while typing or using the touchpad then starts again,) my power save settings have not changed from what is\was set before??? updates or reboots I can only assume I have looked through all GUI settings and their set to not dim for sometime?

$ony vaio:

Code:

$ uname -a
Linux debian2 3.12-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.12.6-2 (2013-12-29) x86_64 GNU/Linux

I don't know it this could help:

Code:

acpi -V
Battery 0: Full, 100%
Battery 0: design capacity 42180 mWh, last full capacity 39010 mWh = 92%
Adapter 0: on-line
Thermal 0: ok, 36.0 degrees C                                                                                                                                                                     
Thermal 0: trip point 0 switches to mode critical at temperature 103.0  degrees C                                                                                                                 
Thermal 0: trip point 1 switches to mode passive at temperature 99.0  degrees C                                                                                                                   
Thermal 1: ok, 36.0 degrees C                                                                                                                                                                     
Thermal 1: trip point 0 switches to mode critical at temperature 103.0  degrees C                                                                                                                 
Cooling 0: LCD 0 of 8                                                                                                                                                                             
Cooling 1: intel_powerclamp no state information available
Cooling 2: Processor 0 of 10
Cooling 3: Processor 0 of 10
Cooling 4: Processor 0 of 10
Cooling 5: Processor 0 of 10

Default is KDE but it's happening in other WMs as-well, my other Debian has never had KDE on it and is not doing this on same machine with same version Debian?

Any ideas? Thanks.

ukiuki · 01-23-2014, 05:24 PM

So the screen is blinking randomily ? How old is the computer? I have seen that happen with faulty video cards. I'm not saying that is the case but so lets see if we can find what it is, maybe a problem with the driver? How often you open and close the screen(maybe is the wires)?

Give more details !!

Regards

jamison20000e · 01-23-2014, 08:55 PM

Hi. It's definitely not the hardware, in another partition another Debian (identical 'uname -a' and source.list) only with a netinst and JWM added works fine.

The one with problems is installed from 3DVDs using KDE4 with a lot more software installed
(I use this one at home and the other on the go (both use sid, now, not recommended I know...

))
basically, the "Battery Monitor Settings" go (each time after 3-5 seconds) dim, then dimmer, then off? No mater how they are set. Attachment 14564 Plus, if I don't touch anything the delay times change and sometimes when it goes off if I brush the touchpad once everything stays fine? Until I need to use input devices again.

I'm thinking of reporting it as a bug? Searching the problem is giving me too many results in the wrong direction.

ukiuki · 01-23-2014, 10:39 PM

Do you have any other energy programs installed? What about the logs, anything there? Oh please post the output for xset q lets see what comes from there.

Have you tried to delete the config file for energy settings, or anything like that?

Regards

jamison20000e · 01-23-2014, 11:29 PM

You always post good commands, thanks. So, now in between uninstall or reinstalls of power management apps and reboots I will post this:

Code:

$ 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:  0x0    WhitePixel:  0xffffff
Font Path:
  /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,built-ins
DPMS (Energy Star):
  Standby: 2160    Suspend: 3240    Off: 4320
  DPMS is Enabled
  Monitor is On

I've also been skimming logs, my /var/log/messages is huge are there any good spots or logs to look at? I think after this reboot (hopefully not

) I will look for those configs...

ukiuki · 01-23-2014, 11:59 PM

Hmmm something for sure isn't right there, Im not so sure about it because one side can override the other,
but here:

Code:

DPMS (Energy Star):
  Standby: 2160    Suspend: 3240    Off: 4320

Now in the screen shot it says off in 30 mins, 30mins*60secs=1800secs
xset says off in 4320 where is it getting this value from? So same is probably happen with dim.
Check how long time take to monitor goes off, mark it.

After uninstalling a package did you purge it too? If not do so also do this just in case:

Code:

aptitude purge ~c

i got it from here

I'm not sure where exactly in the logs to look at.

Regards

jamison20000e · 01-24-2014, 12:28 PM

I never put two and two together before but now realize another problem is related, if I mute the volume it stays but when I turn it down and the screen screen goes off (or just randomly as well) the volume keeps going back to full by itself???
kde-plasma-desktop 5:82 (unstable)
I did not have time yesterday but today am going through the logs more and think I will reboot to go to JWM on the other "unstable" so I don't have to deal with this!