franks@iguanodon.cis.ohio-state.edu (Frank Adelstein) (01/09/90)
I'm having a problem with the screen blanking. Has anyone by chance
run into this before: I'm doing something in a window, I'll move the
mouse, and the screen blanks, puts up the X Logo, and then pops back
to where it was. The keyboard and mouse were being used perhaps 5
seconds before. A very intermittent problem, that I can not reproduce.
Anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
Details: Sun 3/50 (4 Meg memory), SunOS 3.5.1, X11R3 and X11R4, twm and awm
(anything else I'm forgetting?).
Thanks.
--Frank Adelstein (franks@cis.ohio-state.edu).roma@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon Roma) (01/10/90)
In article <75431@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <franks@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes: >I'm having a problem with the screen blanking. Has anyone by chance >run into this before: I'm doing something in a window, I'll move the >mouse, and the screen blanks, puts up the X Logo, and then pops back >to where it was. The keyboard and mouse were being used perhaps 5 >seconds before. A very intermittent problem, that I can not reproduce. >Details: Sun 3/50 (4 Meg memory), SunOS 3.5.1, X11R3 and X11R4, twm and awm I've also noticed this phenomenon on my Sun 3/50 running SunOS 3.5 with either X11R3 and X11R4. (Both were built with Sun cc.) In addition, it seems as if the non-blanking screen saver broke with R4. Now the screen really blanks instead of displaying the X logo. (And I'm not positive that my timeout value is being honored, either.) -- Jon Roma Computing Services Office, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Internet: roma@uiuc.edu BITNet: roma@uiucux1 UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uiucux1!roma
rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) (01/10/90)
I've also noticed this phenomenon on my Sun 3/50 running SunOS 3.5 with
either X11R3 and X11R4. (Both were built with Sun cc.)
I don't think I ever saw this problem with SunOS 3.4, and I don't think I've
ever seen it with 4.0.3. That doesn't guarantee anything, by a long stretch,
but I wonder if it is specific to 3.5?
In addition, it seems as if the non-blanking screen saver broke with R4. Now
the screen really blanks instead of displaying the X logo. (And I'm not
positive that my timeout value is being honored, either.)
Do you mean that "xset noblank" doesn't produce the X logo screen saver?roma@UX1.CSO.UIUC.EDU (Jon Roma) (01/11/90)
> I don't think I ever saw this problem with SunOS 3.4, and I don't think I've > ever seen it with 4.0.3. That doesn't guarantee anything, by a long stretch, > but I wonder if it is specific to 3.5? It may well be, but I can't shed any light since SunOS 3.5 is the only Sun OS under which I spend any significant time running X11. > Do you mean that "xset noblank" doesn't produce the X logo screen saver? Correct. Under R3, the X logo screen saver came up, but now under R4, the screen goes completely black. I have verified that the screen saver starts up earlier than it should. The time I looked at my watch, it happened in around 7 minutes instead of the 15 minutes I specified with `xset'. As others have noted, the screen saver occasionally comes up while the user is active. As a matter of fact, this happened when I was sending this note. As I started moving the mouse, the X logo screen saver came up and then nearly instantaneously restored the normal screen contents. This problem exists both under R3 and R4. FYI, I used Sun cc to build R4. Below is output from `xset q': <misty> home 16$ xset q Keyboard Control: auto repeat: off key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000000 auto repeating keys: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 bell percent: 100 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 150 Pointer Control: acceleration: 4 = 4 / 1 threshold: 10 Screen Saver: prefer blanking: no allow exposures: yes timeout: 900 cycle: 120 Colors: default colormap: 0x80065 BlackPixel: 1 WhitePixel: 0 Font Path: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ Bug Mode: compatibility mode is enabled
rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) (01/11/90)
Under R3, the X logo screen saver came up, but now under R4, the
screen goes completely black. I have verified that the screen saver starts
up earlier than it should.
Beats me. You folks with SunOS 3.5 may have to track this one down yourselves.sja@sirius.hut.fi (Sakari Jalovaara) (01/11/90)
Didn't R3 defeat the Sun /bin/screenblank somehow? With R4 all those pretty "xlock" fractals are blanked after ten minutes. Repeat by: screenblank -d 10; xlock (R4 with /bin/cc, Sun 3, SunOS 4.0.3 Export Strength) ++sja
rlk@THINK.COM (Robert L. Krawitz) (01/12/90)
Date: 11 Jan 90 14:15:37 GMT From: mcsun!sunic!tut!santra!santra!sja@uunet.uu.net (Sakari Jalovaara) Didn't R3 defeat the Sun /bin/screenblank somehow? With R4 all those pretty "xlock" fractals are blanked after ten minutes. That's news to me. I had to edit my rc file to take out the screenblank because I wanted the pretty pictures. (R4 with /bin/cc, Sun 3, SunOS 4.0.3 Export Strength) Well, OK, so this was under 3.5, but I sort of doubt that that has much effect...
casey@gauss.llnl.gov (Casey Leedom) (01/13/90)
Just to add some more data points, I also experience this problem running R3 under SunOS 3.5 (still working on R4) and when I worked on Apollos (no flames please) I think I remember the same problem ...