Subject: Re: Wallstreet screensaver lockup, revisited
From: Tom Astle (tom@pcc.com)
Date: Mon Jan 21 2002 - 08:43:04 MST
Andrew Stout wrote:
> About five weeks ago, Bryan.Walls@msfc.nasa.gov wrote:
>
>> I'm running YDL 2.1 on my Wallstreet. Most everything works great.
>> However,
>> if I'm running X and leave it on for several hours, I can't get it to
>> wake
>> from screen saver. I'm using the default screensaver, so there's
>> normally
>> something visually bouncing around on the screen. However, hitting
>> keys or
>> trackpad doesn't wake it up. I have to either telnet in and reboot,
>> or give
>> a 3-fingered salute.
>>
>> Anyone seen this? Advice?
>
>
> I've just discovered I'm having the exact same problem:
> Wallstreet 233
> YDL 2.1 standard Developer Workstation install
> yet to change much of anything, such as window managers, screensavers,
> or configure such basics as ppp or sound.
>
> Let the screen saver go for a few minutes or an hour, and it's fine.
> Let it go long enough to eat dinner and watch a movie...can't get out.
>
> (It's comforting, at least, that NASA is having the same problem...
> ;-) )
>
> Did anyone (Bryan?) ever find a solution to this? None ever came out
> of the ensuing discussion in the thread, with the exception of turning
> off the screensaver, which elicited some contention. And, come to
> think of it, I wouldn't know just where to do even that...
>
> Any help would naturally be much appreciated...
>
> --Andrew "getting all the learning experience I bargained for and then
> some" Stout
I have two similar machines here that are doing the same thing. Turning
off the
screensaver did not fix it.
I had to disable pmud from chkconfig and that seemed to stop it....so
far, AFIK
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