libera/#devuan/ Tuesday, 2025-02-25

rustyaxein xfce, i have power management set to off - yet after like 5 minutes my screen goes off -- why?01:56
fsmithredrustyaxe, check screensaver settings02:05
rustyaxei dont seem to have a screensaver installed checking dpkg -l|grep screensaver, hmm02:10
fsmithredxfce usually comes with xscreensaver02:15
fsmithredunless you installed pieces of it manually02:15
fsmithredApplications -> Settings -> Screensaver02:16
fsmithredbut your search should have shown it02:16
rustyaxei dont have a screensaver option in settings menu nor the settings application hmm02:19
rustyaxei generally purge screensaver, disable recommends/suggests, install joe/tmux as soon as install devuan. This ones a bit intriguing i wonder if its a remnant of kde02:21
rrqcheck "xset q"02:30
rustyaxerrq: thanks, there it be. Ughh. why cant i just get away from that crap by uninstalling the screensaver stupidity? O_o02:43
gnarfacerustyaxe: "xset dpms 0 0 0"02:50
gnarface(you're on your own for making it persist through restarts)02:50
rustyaxealready sorted, stuck in xsession along with xmousepasteblock to unsort that stupidity02:50
rustyaxei forgot how awful X11 used to be (:02:50
rustyaxeThere was a reason i used screen / tmux with 3 or 4 vts for much of my life, being reminded that X11 "features" was a big part of it02:51
gnarfacei think this is actually the US government's fault02:51
gnarfacei think the "EnergyStar" compliance regulations require power management features to default to on02:52
rustyaxetell that to the 164lb of pit bulls barking their asses off because the Dog TV stream got cut off 10 minutes after the human left :)02:52
rustyaxebut hopefully all sorted. thanks!02:54
gnarfacei think more like 5.17 minutes, but yea i feel you02:54
gnarfaceyw02:55
rustyaxemine was 600 sec02:55
rustyaxebut either, very mad dogs soon after i left the last few days. :O02:56
fsmithredteach them to bump the mouse02:56
rustyaxethe girls are particularly needy and the tv was soothing for them. Fat boy couldnt care either way, he's just happy to live indoors with a family02:56
TorCNot entirely sure what hook EPA/EnergyStar regulations would have on Debian, and still less on Devuan, though I think for most they'd as soon have unused screens turn off, so it's probably generally a user-friendly feature.04:18
TorCs/they'd/people would/04:19
gnarfaceTorC: i don't think it's that the government regulations have directly been enforced by Debian, it's just that the DPMS code in Xorg correctly defaults to presets it inherits from the display hardware itself, manufactured by companies whom it does "have a hook on"05:53
gnarfacesome display hardware exposes its own settings for this even, where you can disable it instead of having to mess with your X config05:54
rustyaxei'd expect all that to be handled by the screensaver tho rather than somewhere in bowels of Xorg, but theres a lot of weird shit in there so i guess it makes sense. It's not exactly the most unixy thing in linux these days :P05:55
gnarfaceluckily for the hardware that doesn't, we can still change the settings in software - the real problem is the GUI interface for this isn't standardized anywhere05:55
plasma41dosensuppe: It looks like you're trying to install both the 0.10.6-1.3 and 0.10.6-1.3local1 versions of the snapper packages at the same time. Make sure to install only the packages with the 0.10.6-1.3local1 version number and uninstall all of the ones with the 0.10.6-1.3 version number.05:57
plasma41also you shouldn't need to purge the 0.10.6-1.3 package versions. simply removing them should be sufficient.05:59
golinuxTorC: EPA? What EPA! I am expecting it to be canceled in the "great dismantling" that's going on . . . (apologies for the OT)06:09
rrqone might also think about that "xset" has been with X11 even before debian was a thing06:58
[NoClan]GoAwaygreetings again.16:26
[NoClan]GoAwayI'm still having a little trouble installing the cursed nvidia drivers.16:26
[NoClan]GoAwayI added "non-free" and "contrib" to the lines in the sources lists16:27
debdoghave you tried following these instructions yet? https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers16:32
golinux[NoClan]GoAway: Isn't the repo "non-free-firmware" these days as per https://www.devuan.org/os/packages16:41
golinux"non-free" went away a while ago IIRC16:42
golinuxDepends which release you are on. I don't use any "non-free" so no personal experience.16:44
[NoClan]GoAwaythanks for getting back. sorry, was away for a little while and re-installed Devuan.16:45
[NoClan]GoAwayturns out sonething was messed up. I added "contrib" and "non-free" again to the sources list and tried the install of the drivers again.16:45
[NoClan]GoAwayit went through this time.16:45
[NoClan]GoAwaynot quite sure why it didn't work the first time around.16:46
[NoClan]GoAwayagain, thank you for trying to help :)16:46
fsmithredgolinux, non-free did not go away. Only the firmware packages moved.16:51
golinuxAh . . . thanks . . .17:02
TorCgnarface: Interesting.  I can recall back in the days of ratpoison I had set up a command to lock the screen and then, IIRC, "xset dpms force off" or similar a half second later.  Never realized any of the timings could come from the hardware side, however.20:09
TorCgolinux: I look forward to the same.20:09
stribikahi, i think i found a bug in sddm, but i'm not exactly sure23:40
stribikathe problem is that with DisplayServer=wayland the sddm-helper process tries to take control of tty1 instead of tty7 which fails23:42
stribikai traced it to isTtyInUse in src/daemon/Display.cpp which must have returned false for tty1, even though i'm logged in there as root23:44
gnarfaceyou're using wayland?23:45
gnarfacewhich video driver, and is your user in the "video" group?23:45
stribikamostly yes. except for sddm23:45
gnarfacewait, so you have sddm using Xorg and it's supposed to hand off to a desktop that's using wayland? i've never heard of anyone doing that, not sure it's actually possible...23:45
stribikayeah. i don't really want to do that, but because of the above problem, that's all i can do23:46
gnarfacehmm23:46
gnarfacewhich video driver?23:46
stribikaamdgpu23:47
gnarfaceand you do have firmware-amd-graphics installed from the non-free-firmware section?23:48
stribikayes23:48
gnarfaceand your regular user is in the "video" group?23:48
stribikait's not23:49
stribikacould that be the issue? it never even gets to running anything as my user23:49
gnarfacecan't be sure it's this issue, but it's definitely an issue23:49
gnarfacetry adding your user to the video group then rebooting and see if anything is different23:49
stribikai'll add myself then. thank you23:49
gnarfaceno problem; while you're at it, you probably want to be in the "audio" group too23:50
gnarface(it might be confusing that this isn't required for NVidia driver users, but that's because the official NVidia drivers still require Xorg to use the legacy suid-root wrapper)23:51
stribikabrb23:52
stribikajoining audio and video didn't fix it23:57
stribikai suspect the problem is here: https://github.com/sddm/sddm/blob/c2b97dd63f726fa3db7f699bb40b2be3e62b8df5/src/daemon/Display.cpp#L60-L7723:58
gnarfaceok, just out of curiosity did you try lightdm instead of sddm?23:59
stribikano. i will do that just let me share what i got so far before that.23:59

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