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.

This patch may also fix the issue:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commitdiff;h=d5811e8731213f80c80d89e980505052f16aca1c

Alex