Weird: xmms interrupted for 1/2 sec when switching off DFP monitor

[Felix Kühling]

Am Mi, den 13.10.2004 schrieb Alex Deucher um 15:33:
> On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:23:03 +0200, Felix Kühling <fxkuehl at gmx.de> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just observed a very strange phenomenon. When I switch off my DFP
> > monitor (because DPMS is currently broken in the Savage driver) music
> > playing in xmms is interrupted for about half a second and then resumes.
> > When I switch on the monitor again I can also see two small spikes in
> > the CPU usage diagram, one when switching the monitor off and one when
> > switching it back on (the latter doesn't interrupt the sound though).
> > Does the Xserver somehow react to a signal from the monitor in a way
> > that would cause a long latency in music playback?
> > 
> > TIA for any illumination,
> 
> FYI, fixing DPMS on DFPs in next on my list.

When I experimented with disabling the streams engine DPMS did work. Let
me know if (when) you change the streams engine to be disabled by
default and I will try again. Of course you may still want to fix DPMS
with the streams engine enabled. ;-)

> 
> Alex
> 

Thanks,
  Felix

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