Subject: RE: wallstreet lockup
From: Iain Stevenson (iain@iainstevenson.com)
Date: Wed Dec 12 2001 - 15:54:18 MST
.. but that needs a screensaver that turns the backlight off rather than
simply turning the LCD panel black in front of the backlight. I don't
suppose the standard xscreensaver does this.
Iain
--On Wednesday, December 12, 2001 2:43 PM -0800 Heather Donahue
<heatherd@sonic.net> wrote:
> At 2:59 PM -0700 on 12/12/01, Charlie Watts wrote:
>
>
>> On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Walls, Bryan wrote:
>>
>>> I mean I did the default Development install, and didn't make any
>>> changes to screensavers. A saver kicks in after a few minutes of
>>> inactivity, which may be one of several diffent designs. I've never
>>> seen a problem if I leave it on 2-3 hours. However, longer than that,
>>> especially overnight, it's quite likely that I can't get the system to
>>> wake up by hitting the space bar -- or anything else.
>>
>> Um ... turn off the screen saver? It's a notebook, they aren't helpful,
>> and only waste CPU.
>
> I can't agree with that. My Pismo just went in to have it's display
> replaced because of a pink screen. Luckily it was still under warranty.
> Apparently it's not uncommon for heavily used laptops to have the
> backlight (florescent I think) fade, flicker or in my case change color.
>
> I use my iMac for YDL and use the Matrix screensaver.
>
> On the laptop the best screensaver is a plain black screen. That
> shouldn't use a lot of cycles. --
> Heather Donahue
> --
> non sum qualis eram
>
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