Monitors not sleeping

[rfemali]

I am running Mageia 9. I have a mother board (Asus Proart Z790) that only had a single HDMI out so I am utilizing a USB-C port for my second display. When the monitors try to go to sleep, I will see the no input message then both go black but trun right back on. I have not been able to get them to stay asleep and any help would be most appreciated. Thanks.

[doktor5000]

Hi there, your description seems to miss a few details.
So you have your first screen attached via HDMI, and your second screen via USB-C?
Also do you use integrated graphics or a dedicated graphic card ?

When the monitors try to go to sleep, I will see the no input message then both go black but trun right back on.

What's the event when the monitors should go to sleep? After like 15 minutes of idle time, or when your computer goes to standby/hibernate or when ?
Also this does happen for both monitors ?

Please post the output of

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xset -q
lspcidrake -v | grep VGA

Also have a look at
https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... -my-screen

[rfemali]

doktor5000,

Yes, one monitor on an HDMI cable and the other on USB-C to HDMI cable.

I checked the link and turning off my mouse had no affect and I do not have an auto setting on my monitors for input. Additionally, this is all the same hardware I had on my last mobo and this issue was not present.

When the monitors try to sleep they will go blue and say no input signal, then go black, and then after a couple seconds they will turn back on.

I am using the integrated graphics.

The output of xset -q was:

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Keyboard Control:
  auto repeat:  on    key click percent:  0    LED mask:  00000002
  XKB indicators:
    00: Caps Lock:   off    01: Num Lock:    on     02: Scroll Lock: off
    03: Compose:     off    04: Kana:        off    05: Sleep:       off
    06: Suspend:     off    07: Mute:        off    08: Misc:        off
    09: Mail:        off    10: Charging:    off    11: Shift Lock:  off
    12: Group 2:     off    13: Mouse Keys:  off
  auto repeat delay:  600    repeat rate:  25
  auto repeating keys:  00ffffffdffffbbf
                        fadfffefffedffff
                        dfffffffffffffff
                        fff7ffffffffffff
  bell percent:  50    bell pitch:  400    bell duration:  100
Pointer Control:
  acceleration:  2/1    threshold:  4
Screen Saver:
  prefer blanking:  yes    allow exposures:  yes
  timeout:  0    cycle:  600
Colors:
  default colormap:  0x20    BlackPixel:  0x0    WhitePixel:  0xffffff
Font Path:
  catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d,built-ins
DPMS (Display Power Management Signaling):
  Standby: 0    Suspend: 0    Off: 0
  DPMS is Enabled
  Monitor is On

Output of lspcidrak -v | grep VGA was:

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Card:Intel Kernel Mode setting (Xorg modesetting): Intel Corporation|Raptor Lake-S GT1 [UHD Graphics 770] [DISPLAY_VGA] (vendor:8086 device:a780 subv:1043 subd:8882) (rev: 04)

added code tags. ~Germ

[doktor5000]

One bit is still missing:

What's the event when the monitors should go to sleep? After like 15 minutes of idle time, or when your computer goes to standby/hibernate or when ?

Also from the link, the main point was to try to disable DPMS (xset dpms force off) and also
to configure the input source for the monitors to what their actual input should be, not to automatic.

[rfemali]

The event is idle 10 minutes.

I tried xset dpms force off and it reacted the same as when the monitors should sleep after 10 minutes.

[doktor5000]

What desktop environment do you use? Plasma, GNOME, ... ?

Would probably be helpful if you leave

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journalctl -af

running in a terminal as root,
then wait 10 minutes until monitors turn off and back on, and then copy&paste the whole journal output here so we can maybe see if there are any other powersaving events or so.

[isadora]

I am using KDE. Below is the result of journalctl -af:

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Aug 02 11:01:22 MagOffice kstart5[785510]: Omitting both --window and --windowclass arguments is not recommended
Aug 02 11:01:22 MagOffice systemd[11128]: Started app-konsole-82c7a9e301ea4e5eba4d4565052e509f.scope.
Aug 02 11:01:22 MagOffice konsole[785522]: Could not create collator: 4
Aug 02 11:01:22 MagOffice konsole[785522]: kf.xmlgui: Shortcut for action  "" "Show Quick Commands" set with QAction::setShortcut()! Use KActionCollection::setDefaultShortcut(s) instead.
Aug 02 11:01:22 MagOffice konsole[785522]: kf.xmlgui: Shortcut for action  "" "Show SSH Manager" set with QAction::setShortcut()! Use KActionCollection::setDefaultShortcut(s) instead.
Aug 02 11:02:23 MagOffice plasmashell[11384]: kf.service.services: KApplicationTrader: mimeType "x-scheme-handler/file" not found
Aug 02 11:02:23 MagOffice systemd[11128]: Started app-systemsettings\x20\x282\x29-abc90602d1304e128e1d29cfdf996b6f.scope.
Aug 02 11:02:23 MagOffice systemsettings[788963]: file:///usr/lib64/qt5/qml/org/kde/kirigami.2/ScrollablePage.qml:200:9: QML MouseArea: Binding loop detected for property "width"
Aug 02 11:02:23 MagOffice systemsettings[788963]: file:///usr/lib64/qt5/qml/org/kde/kirigami.2/ScrollablePage.qml:200:9: QML MouseArea: Binding loop detected for property "width"
Aug 02 11:02:23 MagOffice systemsettings[788963]: QQmlEngine::setContextForObject(): Object already has a QQmlContext
Aug 02 11:12:54 MagOffice plasmashell[11384]: file:///usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.image/contents/ui/main.qml:20: TypeError: Cannot read property 'pluginName' of null
Aug 02 11:12:54 MagOffice plasmashell[11384]: file:///usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.image/contents/ui/main.qml:75: TypeError: Cannot read property 'configuration' of null
Aug 02 11:12:54 MagOffice plasmashell[11384]: file:///usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.image/contents/ui/main.qml:78: TypeError: Cannot read property 'pluginName' of null
Aug 02 11:12:54 MagOffice plasmashell[11384]: file:///usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.image/contents/ui/main.qml:80: TypeError: Cannot read property 'configuration' of null
Aug 02 11:12:54 MagOffice plasmashell[11384]: file:///usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.image/contents/ui/main.qml:81: TypeError: Cannot read property 'configuration' of null
Aug 02 11:12:54 MagOffice plasmashell[11384]: file:///usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.image/contents/ui/main.qml:82: TypeError: Cannot read property 'configuration' of null
Aug 02 11:12:54 MagOffice plasmashell[11384]: file:///usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.image/contents/ui/main.qml:83: TypeError: Cannot read property 'configuration' of null
Aug 02 11:12:54 MagOffice plasmashell[11384]: file:///usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.image/contents/ui/main.qml:84: TypeError: Cannot read property 'configuration' of null
Aug 02 11:12:54 MagOffice plasmashell[11384]: file:///usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.image/contents/ui/main.qml:16: TypeError: Cannot read property 'configuration' of null
Aug 02 11:12:54 MagOffice plasmashell[11384]: file:///usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.image/contents/ui/main.qml:17: TypeError: Cannot read property 'configuration' of null
Aug 02 11:12:54 MagOffice plasmashell[11384]: file:///usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.image/contents/ui/main.qml:18: TypeError: Cannot read property 'configuration' of null
Aug 02 11:12:56 MagOffice plasmashell[11384]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.notifications/contents/ui/FullRepresentation.qml:183:13: QML DescriptiveLabel: Binding loop detected for property "verticalAlignment"
Aug 02 11:12:56 MagOffice plasmashell[11384]: file:///usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.image/contents/ui/main.qml:20: TypeError: Cannot read property 'pluginName' of null
Aug 02 11:12:56 MagOffice plasmashell[11384]: file:///usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.image/contents/ui/main.qml:75: TypeError: Cannot read property 'configuration' of null
Aug 02 11:12:56 MagOffice plasmashell[11384]: file:///usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.image/contents/ui/main.qml:78: TypeError: Cannot read property 'pluginName' of null
Aug 02 11:12:56 MagOffice plasmashell[11384]: file:///usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.image/contents/ui/main.qml:80: TypeError: Cannot read property 'configuration' of null
Aug 02 11:12:56 MagOffice plasmashell[11384]: file:///usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.image/contents/ui/main.qml:81: TypeError: Cannot read property 'configuration' of null
Aug 02 11:12:56 MagOffice plasmashell[11384]: file:///usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.image/contents/ui/main.qml:82: TypeError: Cannot read property 'configuration' of null
Aug 02 11:12:56 MagOffice plasmashell[11384]: file:///usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.image/contents/ui/main.qml:83: TypeError: Cannot read property 'configuration' of null
Aug 02 11:12:56 MagOffice plasmashell[11384]: file:///usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.image/contents/ui/main.qml:84: TypeError: Cannot read property 'configuration' of null
Aug 02 11:12:56 MagOffice plasmashell[11384]: file:///usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.image/contents/ui/main.qml:16: TypeError: Cannot read property 'configuration' of null
Aug 02 11:12:56 MagOffice plasmashell[11384]: file:///usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.image/contents/ui/main.qml:17: TypeError: Cannot read property 'configuration' of null
Aug 02 11:12:56 MagOffice plasmashell[11384]: file:///usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.image/contents/ui/main.qml:18: TypeError: Cannot read property 'configuration' of null

[doktor5000]

There do not seem to be any relevant events there. Are you sure you ran that as root ?

You can also check https://community.kde.org/Solid/Project ... nformation to get debugging information on kscreen, as that should be the backend process that handles the monitor on/off events or at least it should register them.

Also simply leaving

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kscreen-console monitor

running as regular user instead of journalctl should also show those events. You can exit it via Ctrl+C if you don't need it any more.
Although for that you may need to enable debug messages via kdebugdialog5