Caffeine (software) not working

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marcsitkin
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Joined: Wed Sep 06, 2023 8:22 am

Caffeine (software) not working

#1 Post by marcsitkin »

Hello,

I've added the caffeine and caffeine indicator applications to my system to manually prevent my screen from dimming, but it seems to not have any effect. After 10 minutes of no use, the screen dims anyways.

Anyone know of a fix?

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System:
  Kernel: 6.1.0-10-amd64 [6.1.38-2] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-10-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.5 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 7 dm: SDDM Distro: MX-23_KDE_x64 Libretto July
    31 2023 base: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: HP product: HP ENVY Desktop 795-00xx v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
    Chassis: type: 3 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 844C v: 00 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: AMI v: F.40 date: 11/21/2019
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Illuminated Keyboard K800 serial: <filter>
    charge: 100% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: discharging
  Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech Marathon Mouse/Performance Plus M705 serial: <filter>
    charge: 55% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i7-8700 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Coffee Lake gen: core 8 level: v3
    note: check built: 2018 process: Intel 14nm family: 6 model-id: 0x9E (158) stepping: 0xA (10)
    microcode: 0xF4
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 tpc: 2 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache: L1: 384 KiB
    desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 1.5 MiB desc: 6x256 KiB L3: 12 MiB desc: 1x12 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 4116 high: 4301 min/max: 800/4600 scaling: driver: intel_pstate
    governor: powersave cores: 1: 3200 2: 4300 3: 3200 4: 4299 5: 4300 6: 4300 7: 4301 8: 4300
    9: 4300 10: 4300 11: 4301 12: 4300 bogomips: 76799
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: retbleed mitigation: IBRS
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: IBRS, IBPB: conditional, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling,
    PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: TSX disabled
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 3GB] vendor: eVga.com. driver: nvidia v: 525.125.06
    non-free: 530.xx+ status: current (as of 2023-03) arch: Pascal code: GP10x process: TSMC 16nm
    built: 2016-21 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1c02
    class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.9 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
    loaded: nvidia gpu: nvidia display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1600 s-dpi: 101 s-size: 644x402mm (25.35x15.83") s-diag: 759mm (29.89")
  Monitor-1: DP-4 res: 2560x1600 hz: 60 dpi: 101 size: 641x401mm (25.24x15.79")
    diag: 756mm (29.77") modes: N/A
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 525.125.06 renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB/PCIe/SSE2
    direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a348 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP106 High Definition Audio vendor: eVga.com. driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:10f1 class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-10-amd64 status: kernel-api tools: alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.65 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
    2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: rtw_8821ce v: N/A modules: rtw88_8821ce,wl,rtl8821ce pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 port: 4000 bus-ID: 3c:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:c821 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 3000 bus-ID: 3d:00.0
    chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth 4.2 Adapter type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-14:5
    chip-ID: 0bda:b00a class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 2.1 lmp-v: 4.2
    sub-v: f098 hci-v: 4.2 rev: 75b8
  Info: acl-mtu: 1021:8 sco-mtu: 255:12 link-policy: rswitch hold sniff park
    link-mode: peripheral accept service-classes: rendering, capturing, object transfer, audio,
    telephony
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 10.27 TiB used: 6.29 TiB (61.2%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: A-Data model: SX8200PNP size: 476.94 GiB block-size:
    physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 42AZS6AC
    temp: 46.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 maj-min: 259:1 vendor: Seagate model: XPG GAMMIX S50 Lite size: 953.87 GiB
    block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
    rev: 82C6U67A temp: 42.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-3: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Micron model: MTFDDAV256TBN-1AR1ZABHA size: 238.47 GiB
    block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 0014
    scheme: GPT
  ID-4: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Crucial model: CT1000MX500SSD1 size: 931.51 GiB
    block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 043
  ID-5: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Western Digital model: WD30EZRX-00SPEB0 size: 2.73 TiB
    block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter>
    rev: 0A80
  ID-6: /dev/sdd maj-min: 8:48 type: USB vendor: Western Digital model: WD40EZRZ-22GXCB0
    size: 3.64 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter>
  ID-7: /dev/sde maj-min: 8:64 type: USB vendor: Western Digital model: WD15EARS-00MVWB0
    size: 1.36 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: N/A serial: <filter>
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 476.69 GiB size: 468.13 GiB (98.21%) used: 365.22 GiB (78.0%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:3
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 256 MiB size: 252 MiB (98.46%) used: 274 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:2
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 6 GiB used: 4.8 MiB (0.1%) priority: -2 file: /swap/swap
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 65.0 C pch: 77.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 53 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 14%
Repos:
  Packages: 2580 pm: dpkg pkgs: 2567 libs: 1398 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,nala,synaptic pm: rpm
    pkgs: 0 pm: flatpak pkgs: 13
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
    1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
    1: deb http://mxlinux.mirrors.tds.net/mxlinux/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free
    2: deb http://mxlinux.mirrors.tds.net/mxlinux/mx/repo/ bookworm ahs
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/syncthing.list
    1: deb https://apt.syncthing.net/ syncthing stable
Info:
  Processes: 319 Uptime: 2h 5m wakeups: 15 Memory: 31.21 GiB used: 3.89 GiB (12.5%) Init: SysVinit
  v: 3.06 runlevel: 5 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 alt: 12
  Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.15-release inxi: 3.3.26
Boot Mode: UEFI

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markol
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Re: Caffeine (software) not working

#2 Post by markol »

I run caffeine-indicator and it works (on KDE)

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