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  1. Bug #1767568
  2. Comment #37

Comment 37 for bug 1767568

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Robie Basak (racb) wrote : Re: Console DPMS is not enabled by default in Ubuntu Server 18.04

Thank you for taking the time to write this up and helping to make Ubuntu better.

As far as I understand, some of you consider this to be a matter of the default configuration shipped by Ubuntu, rather than kernel DPMS functionality itself not working when configured to do so.

Others seem to be reporting that kernel DPMS functionality does not work at all.

I'm unclear which is which, but the original reporter described this problem as solved in comment 24 and that was based on the default configuration, not on non-functional blanking as required when configured. On that basis, I'm marking this particular bug, as reported and suggested by the original reporter, as Invalid.

If you have a problem getting some specific blanking functionality to work *when configured to do so*, please file a new, separate bug for that, making it clear what you think isn't working (blanking or DPMS) and describing exactly how you have configured your system such that you believe it should work.

If you object to Ubuntu's *default configuration* as changed in the resolution to bug 869017, then please start a discussion on that on the mailing list (https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server) or on the community forum (https://community.ubuntu.com/c/server) and, following discussion, the Ubuntu Server Team will make a final decision on what the default should be (I'm claiming this decision for the Ubuntu Server Team since this is clearly a server question since it's outside the scope of Ubuntu Desktop). You can file a bug to have the default changed if you like, but since we already made the decision to change the default in bug 869017, we're only going to mark it Won't Fix pending further discussion as a decision was already previously made. Otherwise we'll just end up flip-flopping between defaults every release, which is clearly bad for everyone. The better approach would be to seek consensus considering both sides which would be better done in a general discussion and not a bug that presumes a conclusion by only considering one side of the discussion.