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[Bryce Harrington <836945@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Barry,

It sounds sort of like gnome-settings-daemon is not capturing the
settings properly, so your system is defaulting to 10 minutes.  I notice
this in your dmesg which hints perhaps gsd is dying (coincidentally in
some power module):

[22483.782153] gnome-settings-[2178] trap divide error ip:7fdd4a47931b
sp:7fff856edb10 error:0 in libpower.so[7fdd4a46b000+17000]

You can query and set the default X screen blanking via xset.  For
instance:

 $ xset q | grep -A4 DPMS
DPMS (Energy Star):
  Standby: 7200    Suspend: 7200    Off: 14400
  DPMS is Enabled
  Monitor is On

humber:~$ xset dpms 10 20 30
humber:~$ xset q | grep -A4 DPMS
DPMS (Energy Star):
  Standby: 10    Suspend: 20    Off: 30
  DPMS is Enabled
  Monitor is On

Run 'xset' by itself to see other options it supports.

Since the line in dmesg suggests something's gone wrong with g-s-d I'm
reassigning this bug there.  However, if you find tweaking dpms settings
via xset doesn't work around the bug, feel free to reopen an X task.

** Package changed: xorg (Ubuntu) => gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

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Title:
  Screen always goes blank after 10 minutes

Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Even though my screen saver settings say to "Turn off after: 1 hour",
  my screens always go blank after 10 minutes of inactivity.  This is
  entirely reproducible.  I am using the free glx driver with my Radeon
  HD 4670 card, dual-headed.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu6
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.14-generic 3.0.3
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  BootLog:
   udevd[362]: error: runtime directory '/run/udev' not writable, for now falling back to '/dev/.udev'
   fsck from util-linux 2.19.1
   /dev/sdb2: clean, 142348/90841088 files, 6520516/363354368 blocks
  CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,mousepoll,vpswitch,regex,animation,snap,expo,move,compiztoolbox,place,grid,imgpng,gnomecompat,wall,ezoom,workarounds,staticswitcher,resize,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,scale,session,unitydialog,unityshell]
  CompositorRunning: None
  Date: Mon Aug 29 14:52:39 2011
  DistUpgraded: Fresh install
  DistroCodename: oneiric
  DistroVariant: ubuntu
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, whatever it takes to get this fixed in Ubuntu
  GraphicsCard:
   ATI Technologies Inc RV730XT [Radeon HD 4670] [1002:9490] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
     Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:2542]
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110705.1)
  MachineType: Dell Inc. Studio XPS 435MT
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-9-generic root=UUID=7ffae0c6-66ea-4bbd-ae3d-f98ddd9603a5 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: xorg
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 05/05/2009
  dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: 1.1.1
  dmi.board.name: 0R849J
  dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.board.version: A03
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr1.1.1:bd05/05/2009:svnDellInc.:pnStudioXPS435MT:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0R849J:rvrA03:cvnDellInc.:ct3:cvr:
  dmi.product.name: Studio XPS 435MT
  dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
  version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.5.92+bzr2791-0ubuntu1
  version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu19
  version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.26-1ubuntu1
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.11-0ubuntu3
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
  version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.11-0ubuntu3
  version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu6
  version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.6.0-1ubuntu13
  version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20110811.g93fc084-0ubuntu1
  version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.15.901-1ubuntu2
  version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1

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