----- Original Message ---- From: Kenny Gow <kgfedora@xxxxxxxxxx> To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 4:50:52 AM Subject: Re: mplayer, dpms problem Antonio Olivares wrote: > Dear all, > I would like to kindly ask for your advice regarding > an issue with mplayer. I have the Gnome power control > enabled to blank the screen after 2 minutes. > Previously, when playing films with mplayer the > command > $ mplayer dvd:// -alang en -stop-xscreensaver > worked till the movie finished. > In Fedora Core 5 and the new inclusion of > gnome-screensaver, this also worked. However, with > Core 6, mplayer plays the movie but dpms kicks in and > blanks the screen. How can I tell dpms not to kick in > and allow mplayer to play the complete movie without > blanking the screen? > > I have tried to use > $ xset -dpms and > $ xset dpms off but > Power Savings kicks in and monitor blanks after 2 > minutes. I do not want to disable power savings on in > Gnome Power Manager. I want to find a viable > solution. Thank you for your time and advice. > I have had similar issues on FC5 and FC6. My solution was to remove the gnome-screensaver package and install the xscreensaver* packages like it was before. I left gnome-power-manager installed but set it to Never. I used the settings in xscreensaver properties to set the screensaver blank time and the power management timeouts. I put stop-xscreensaver=yes in my mplayer config file and all worked fine to let mplayer play without blanking. A little research led me to these links http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2004-October/030261.html http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=3a3df3f9dadb56551868b5ddbbafcf08&t=189051 which lead me to believe that the controlling settings always end up coming from xscreensaver properties. Regards, Kenny -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Kenny, First of all, I would like to thank you for anwering this thread, since almost everybody else is /* answering the Nvidia sucks */ thread more. I know that Xine does not allow dpms to kick in and will play a movie from start to finish. However, sometimes I like to avoid the menus and with mplayer it is quicker. I tried doing my homework as well I recompiled mplayer with some patches for stopping mplayer using mplayer dvd:// -disable-dpms, from here http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mplayer.devel/38396/match=mplayer+gui+dpms Yet this does not work even. So I do not sure whose fault it is, whether mplayer, or Xorg 7.1. I checked xine config file in /home/olivares/.xine/ and says video automatic. I have tried using different mplayer -vo options like x11, xv, sdl and none have given me success. I guess I should wait a bit and when newer mplayer releases take care of this problem. Regards, Antonio
