DPMS will keep switching monitor on and off

[Alex Deucher]

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 6:29 AM, Wojciech Pyczak <nissarin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Some time ago there was a patch [1] merged in which was designed to fix DPMS
> (monitor would go on/off all the time [2] instead of just going off), I was
> happy to see this one but unfortunately it doesn't work for me - I still
> experience the same behaviour.
> I'm terrible lazy so I didn't report it before but seeing that some
> "unrelated" change might be the cause of bug in dri code (as in #42162) got
> me wondering.
>
> Should I open a bug report for it ?

File a bug (https://bugs.freedesktop.org) and attach your xorg log and
dmesg output.

Alex