Re: [opensuse] Re: stubborn screen blanking under OS11.1 - Link SOLUTION

Dave Plater wrote:

LLLActive@GMX.Net wrote:

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JC Francois wrote:

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JC Francois wrote:

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Hi,

For a few weeks now my OpenSUSE 11.1 desktop PC has decided to blank the screen after 6 minutes of inactivity. Nothing that I have tried so far has managed to modify this behaviour.

Can somebody please suggest a place where to look for solution?

This problem is extremely irritating.

Thanks,

~/jc

Someone else has a similar problem with a solution here: http://www.kde-forum.org/artikel/15922/screen-saver-problem.html

Another (similar) problem could be (if you use KDE 3.5 with OpenSUSE 11.1): I have one system that has similar behaviour - the difference is that it flashes broad horizontal lines on the screen when the system starts, before the first login. Automated Login is activated, but then after the brad lines go away, the screen is blank. Pushing a key or moving the mouse, a login screen appears of the screensaver. I have not yet logged in at all! It goes straight from automated login into the screen saver (blank). Once logged in, the screen saver does not start again.

What I noticed is that there are no screen savers to select from if you try to set up one in KDE's Personal Settings -> Appearance & Themes -> Screen Saver. If you have screen savers - skip the rest. If they fail, read on:

I recall there was a missing screen saver directory problem in a previous OpenSUSE 11.x version. On the system that works, I did the manual link to the right directory for screen savers; on the one with the strange behaviour not.

I use KDE 3.5 and not KDE 4.1 yet on OpenSUSE 11.1. Check if you have a directory called /opt/kde3/share/applnk/System/ScreenSavers. My installation did not have one. It was somewhere else, and had to be copied here to get screen savers. See the workaround below if you do not see screen savers.

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On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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On Sunday February 15 2009, Marc Chamberlin wrote:

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Sometimes I feel like it is just one $%@(! breakage after another in Linux! I have not done anything other than ordinary updates, as they come in, and now this time one of my systems no longer has any screen savers showing in the list of the KDE -> Personal Settings -> Screen Saver. I noted it when the screen saver failed to run and so went in to see what the problem was.... The Setup and Test buttons are grayed out/inoperative and no screen savers are listed. SO WHAT HAPPENED?

Did a reinstall of all packages related to screen savers, and now I see that the screen savers are again running (randomly as I normally select) BUT still no list of screen savers is being shown in the KDE configuration tool.

This symptom is precisely what happened to me twice when I installed some Gnome packages (I, too, use KDE 3.5). The first time I wanted the Gnome control panel (or whatever it's called) the second time I wanted Yelp (the Gnome help viewer). Both times I lost the list of screen savers in the KDE configuration. Both times I had made it a point to capture a screen snapshot of the list of automatic package changes tied to the one Gnome package I wanted to add and that I could use that to precisely back out the problematic packages. That, fortunately, did restore my screen saver list.

I guess we can infer that the intersection of those two sets of packages contains the problematic package(s). You can get those images here:

http://208.201.233.232/~rschulz/package-additions.zip

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Am running KDE3.5 under SuSE11.1...

_workaround: _ sudo mkdir /opt/kde3/share/applnk/apps sudo ln -s /opt/kde3/share/applnk/System/ScreenSavers /opt/kde3/share/applnk/apps/ScreenSavers

i'm using opensuse11.1, x64, default kde3.5 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Million thanks Alexander and Randall for your replies and help. Yes Alexander, your workaround works, too bad I have not seen any updates come out to fix this breakage for other users...

Marc... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

HTH

:-) Al

My screen saver had also disappeared and was replaced by screen blanking, I'm running factory and kde3 from build service, there's no factory kde3 anymore. This mail prompted me to check it and the workaround worked. Could have been the result of installing gnome packages in my case as well. Thanks Dave Plater

I looked at my system that I changed for the ScreenSavers to work. I added a symbolic link where the ScreenSavers are expected by KDE 3.5 under OpenSUSE 11.1 as root: ln -s /opt/kde3/share/applnk/System/ScreenSavers /opt/kde3/share/applnk/apps/ScreenSavers It works fine now. :-) Al -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org