Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4398 mails)

["Greg Wallace" <jgregw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, September 07, 2005 @ 6:22 PM, I wrote:

>On Wednesday, September 07, 2005 @ 4:54 Sid Boyce wrote:

>Greg Wallace wrote:
>> On Wednesday, September 07, 2005 @ 3:48 PM, I wrote:
<snip>
>>>...my screen save still doesn't
>>> start the desktop image just freezes after the time limit for starting
the
>>> screen saver is reached.  I have no idea why this is happening.  All of
the
>>> desktop settings look fine to me.  Any help greatly appreciated.
>>> 
>>> Greg Wallace
>>> 
>>>You could just have done "chkconfig acpid off" and done "rcpowersaved 
>>>start" without having to deinstall anything.
>>Regards
>>Sid.
>>-- 
>>Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot
>>Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support 
>>Specialist
>>Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks
>Thanks for the info Sid.  I followed your instructions (re-installed the
>package and ran the two commands you list) and that did fix the problem
>where I was getting that pop-up error message.  However, my screen saver
>still doesn't start.  The screen image freezes until I move the cursor.
>Any ideas on this problem?

>Thanks,
>Greg Wallace

I'm wondering if the fact that the screen image freezes is what causes the
screen saver to not come on.  The screen saver stopped working as soon as
that freezing up started to happen.  Anybody no what controls this (and how
to disable it?).  The only way I can tell it's frozen is by looking at the
clock in the bottom right hand corner.  Once it freezes, the colon between
the hour and minute stops blinking and it's frozen in time.  Whatever hour
and minute were on there when it froze stay there until I move the mouse or
touch the keyboard.  Then the image refreshes.  I think maybe if I could
shut this function off, the screen saver would kick in(?).

Thanks,
Greg Wallace