[opensuse] screen saver intermittant
Going back through the last 5 versions of SUSE I have observed this same problem with the screen saver. I am currently on 10.2 and about to go to 10.3 I have the screen saver set for random (more interesting that way) to start after 4-minutes of idle time. I have: Use OpenGL screen savers and Use screen savers that manipulate the screen clicked on. Also, somewhere, I have it set to just go dark/blank after about 10-minutes. Every once in awhile (sometimes a month) this fails and the screen just stays on. Nothing I can think of to do works to restore the functionality outside of a reboot. This time I did notice that I had Firefox minimized but I am not sure if that has anything to do with it. Any ideas what causes this intermittent behavior? Bob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Robert Lewis wrote:
Going back through the last 5 versions of SUSE I have observed this same problem with the screen saver. I am currently on 10.2 and about to go to 10.3
I have the screen saver set for random (more interesting that way) to start after 4-minutes of idle time. I have: Use OpenGL screen savers and Use screen savers that manipulate the screen clicked on. Also, somewhere, I have it set to just go dark/blank after about 10-minutes.
Every once in awhile (sometimes a month) this fails and the screen just stays on. Nothing I can think of to do works to restore the functionality outside of a reboot.
What have you tried, "outside of a reboot"? Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 11/4/07, joe <joe@tmsusa.com> wrote:
Robert Lewis wrote:
Going back through the last 5 versions of SUSE I have observed this same problem with the screen saver. I am currently on 10.2 and about to go to 10.3
I have the screen saver set for random (more interesting that way) to start after 4-minutes of idle time. I have: Use OpenGL screen savers and Use screen savers that manipulate the screen clicked on. Also, somewhere, I have it set to just go dark/blank after about 10-minutes.
Every once in awhile (sometimes a month) this fails and the screen just stays on. Nothing I can think of to do works to restore the functionality outside of a reboot.
What have you tried, "outside of a reboot"?
Joe --
I have tried closing all windows and walking away for an hour with the same problem staying. I have shutdown the desktop and brought it back up and if memory serves me sometimes that will work for awhile. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Am Sonntag, 4. November 2007 17:07:24 schrieb Robert Lewis:
Going back through the last 5 versions of SUSE I have observed this same problem with the screen saver. I am currently on 10.2 and about to go to 10.3
I have the screen saver set for random (more interesting that way) to start after 4-minutes of idle time. I have: Use OpenGL screen savers and Use screen savers that manipulate the screen clicked on. Also, somewhere, I have it set to just go dark/blank after about 10-minutes.
Every once in awhile (sometimes a month) this fails and the screen just stays on. Nothing I can think of to do works to restore the functionality outside of a reboot.
This time I did notice that I had Firefox minimized but I am not sure if that has anything to do with it.
Any ideas what causes this intermittent behavior?
Bob
I have the same problem and simply gave up on it. When I walk away from the computer, I manually switch off the monitor. I had thought that kplayer was the culprit, as it seemed to happen only after I played a video, but that only accounts for maybe 3/4 of the screensaver failures. To bring the screensaver back to life, I open kpowersave, change some arbitrary setting in the "screensaver & dpms" window, save the setting, then change them back to how I had them before. Then I open the desktop control center, got to appearance -> screensaver and do the same there. That sometimes helps, sometimes it doesn't. A very frustrating experience. -- Gruß Andreas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 20:13 -0800, Andreas wrote:
Am Sonntag, 4. November 2007 17:07:24 schrieb Robert Lewis:
I have the screen saver set for random (more interesting that way) to start after 4-minutes of idle time. I have: Use OpenGL screen savers and Use screen savers that manipulate the screen clicked on. Also, somewhere, I have it set to just go dark/blank after about 10-minutes.
Every once in awhile (sometimes a month) this fails and the screen just stays on. Nothing I can think of to do works to restore the functionality outside of a reboot.
I have the same problem and simply gave up on it. When I walk away from the computer, I manually switch off the monitor. I had thought that kplayer was the culprit, as it seemed to happen only after I played a video, but that only accounts for maybe 3/4 of the screensaver failures.
To bring the screensaver back to life, I open kpowersave, change some arbitrary setting in the "screensaver & dpms" window, save the setting, then change them back to how I had them before. Then I open the desktop control center, got to appearance -> screensaver and do the same there. That sometimes helps, sometimes it doesn't.
A very frustrating experience.
Great (well not so), someone else also has this - I thought I was the only one. This is def a mplayer (movie player? I only use mplayer) and kpowersave issue (since 10.0; 9 worked fine). I will see if I can recreate it and file a bug report. Hans E-mail Disclaimer http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Am Montag, 5. November 2007 22:38:37 schrieb Hans van der Merwe:
Great (well not so), someone else also has this - I thought I was the only one. This is def a mplayer (movie player? I only use mplayer) and kpowersave issue (since 10.0; 9 worked fine).
well, kplayer is basically just a KDE frontend for mplayer.
I will see if I can recreate it and file a bug report. Hans
That's where it got me. I did not even file a bug report with KDE or Novell because I could never reliably recreate the circumstances under which the screensaver fails. -- Gruß Andreas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Dienstag, 6. November 2007 Andreas:
Am Montag, 5. November 2007 22:38:37 schrieb Hans van der Merwe:
Great (well not so), someone else also has this - I thought I was the only one. This is def a mplayer (movie player? I only use mplayer) and kpowersave issue (since 10.0; 9 worked fine).
well, kplayer is basically just a KDE frontend for mplayer.
I will see if I can recreate it and file a bug report. Hans
That's where it got me. I did not even file a bug report with KDE or Novell because I could never reliably recreate the circumstances under which the screensaver fails.
Sloooow mouse crawl? Happens fairly often with my optical mouse. Next time it happens you might want to check whether your mouse is on the run. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 17:07 -0800, Robert Lewis wrote:
Going back through the last 5 versions of SUSE I have observed this same problem with the screen saver. I am currently on 10.2 and about to go to 10.3
I have the screen saver set for random (more interesting that way) to start after 4-minutes of idle time. I have: Use OpenGL screen savers and Use screen savers that manipulate the screen clicked on. Also, somewhere, I have it set to just go dark/blank after about 10-minutes.
Every once in awhile (sometimes a month) this fails and the screen just stays on. Nothing I can think of to do works to restore the functionality outside of a reboot.
This time I did notice that I had Firefox minimized but I am not sure if that has anything to do with it.
Any ideas what causes this intermittent behavior?
maybe gnome-screensaver is crashing, is it still running when the screen doesn't lock? If it is crashing, try to run it under gdb to get a stack trace and file a bug report with it attached. -- Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo@novell.com> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Rodrigo Moya wrote:
On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 17:07 -0800, Robert Lewis wrote:
Going back through the last 5 versions of SUSE I have observed this same problem with the screen saver. I am currently on 10.2 and about to go to 10.3
I have the screen saver set for random (more interesting that way) to start after 4-minutes of idle time. I have: Use OpenGL screen savers and Use screen savers that manipulate the screen clicked on. Also, somewhere, I have it set to just go dark/blank after about 10-minutes.
Every once in awhile (sometimes a month) this fails and the screen just stays on. Nothing I can think of to do works to restore the functionality outside of a reboot.
This time I did notice that I had Firefox minimized but I am not sure if that has anything to do with it.
Any ideas what causes this intermittent behavior?
maybe gnome-screensaver is crashing, is it still running when the screen doesn't lock? If it is crashing, try to run it under gdb to get a stack trace and file a bug report with it attached.
Thanks for the suggestion. However, I am running KDE and have been all along so does your suggestion still apply? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 10:38 -0800, Robert Lewis wrote:
Rodrigo Moya wrote:
On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 17:07 -0800, Robert Lewis wrote:
Going back through the last 5 versions of SUSE I have observed this same problem with the screen saver. I am currently on 10.2 and about to go to 10.3
I have the screen saver set for random (more interesting that way) to start after 4-minutes of idle time. I have: Use OpenGL screen savers and Use screen savers that manipulate the screen clicked on. Also, somewhere, I have it set to just go dark/blank after about 10-minutes.
Every once in awhile (sometimes a month) this fails and the screen just stays on. Nothing I can think of to do works to restore the functionality outside of a reboot.
This time I did notice that I had Firefox minimized but I am not sure if that has anything to do with it.
Any ideas what causes this intermittent behavior?
maybe gnome-screensaver is crashing, is it still running when the screen doesn't lock? If it is crashing, try to run it under gdb to get a stack trace and file a bug report with it attached.
Thanks for the suggestion. However, I am running KDE and have been all along so does your suggestion still apply?
sorry, I read ...screensaver.. and immediately thought it was gnome-screensaver. If you use KDE, you might want to do the same with kscreensaver and see if it's crashing -- Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo@novell.com> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Rodrigo Moya wrote:
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 10:38 -0800, Robert Lewis wrote:
Rodrigo Moya wrote:
On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 17:07 -0800, Robert Lewis wrote:
Going back through the last 5 versions of SUSE I have observed this same problem with the screen saver. I am currently on 10.2 and about to go to 10.3
I have the screen saver set for random (more interesting that way) to start after 4-minutes of idle time. I have: Use OpenGL screen savers and Use screen savers that manipulate the screen clicked on. Also, somewhere, I have it set to just go dark/blank after about 10-minutes.
Every once in awhile (sometimes a month) this fails and the screen just stays on. Nothing I can think of to do works to restore the functionality outside of a reboot.
This time I did notice that I had Firefox minimized but I am not sure if that has anything to do with it.
Any ideas what causes this intermittent behavior?
maybe gnome-screensaver is crashing, is it still running when the screen doesn't lock? If it is crashing, try to run it under gdb to get a stack trace and file a bug report with it attached.
Thanks for the suggestion. However, I am running KDE and have been all along so does your suggestion still apply?
sorry, I read ...screensaver.. and immediately thought it was gnome-screensaver. If you use KDE, you might want to do the same with kscreensaver and see if it's crashing
I tried ps -ef | grep kscreensaver and do not see any such process running here although the screensaver is now back working following my latest reboot. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Am Dienstag, 6. November 2007 08:53:16 schrieb Rodrigo Moya:
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 10:38 -0800, Robert Lewis wrote:
Rodrigo Moya wrote:
On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 17:07 -0800, Robert Lewis wrote:
Going back through the last 5 versions of SUSE I have observed this same problem with the screen saver. I am currently on 10.2 and about to go to 10.3
I have the screen saver set for random (more interesting that way) to start after 4-minutes of idle time. I have: Use OpenGL screen savers and Use screen savers that manipulate the screen clicked on. Also, somewhere, I have it set to just go dark/blank after about 10-minutes.
Every once in awhile (sometimes a month) this fails and the screen just stays on. Nothing I can think of to do works to restore the functionality outside of a reboot.
This time I did notice that I had Firefox minimized but I am not sure if that has anything to do with it.
Any ideas what causes this intermittent behavior?
maybe gnome-screensaver is crashing, is it still running when the screen doesn't lock? If it is crashing, try to run it under gdb to get a stack trace and file a bug report with it attached.
Thanks for the suggestion. However, I am running KDE and have been all along so does your suggestion still apply?
sorry, I read ...screensaver.. and immediately thought it was gnome-screensaver. If you use KDE, you might want to do the same with kscreensaver and see if it's crashing -- Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo@novell.com>
From what I understand, there is no such thing as kscreensaver. The different screensavers are started by some kde daemon (kded?) when everything works as expected. -- Gruß Andreas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 14:35 -0800, Andreas wrote:
From what I understand, there is no such thing as kscreensaver. The different screensavers are started by some kde daemon (kded?) when everything works as expected.
I have the same problem in 10.0 and I did remove gnome-screensaver as I read it conflicts with xscreensaver. I found a daemon called powersaved which man says controls acpi and apm events well this is a desktop. There is also a kpowersaver that I killed. I also use random and the screen savers work in KDE not gnome. So I am hoping this has fixed it otherwise random must have a very old bug. No such problems in 9.2 on the Old PII. ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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