Re: Old bugs never die

[jg pa dec com (Jim Gettys)]

I don't think this is Alpha specific.

I was seeing similar bizzarness on my laptop, as I was disabling DPMS
which was hanging it (until I installed more up to date server bits
on the laptop).

I ended up using xset to ensure it was really disabled.
				- Jim


> Sender: gnome-private-members-admin gnome org
> From: Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>
> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:08:11 -0400
> To: gnome-hackers gnome org, Jim Gettys <jg pa dec com>
> Subject: Fwd: Re: Old bugs never die
> -----
>   Seems that the DPMS handling is breaking ... on the alpha.
> Does it ring a bell to anybody here ? Maybe Jim can check
> with Compaq if this sound familiar too.
> 
> Daniel
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from "H . J . Lu" <hjl gnu org> -----
> > Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 09:00:30 -0700
> > From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl gnu org>
> > Subject: Re: Old bugs never die
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 11:54:50AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> > >
> > > Yes, I'm having people reporting DPMS bugs against X, but I
> > > cannot reproduce it at all.  I've tried with various r128 cards,
> > > Radeon, G400, G200.
> > >
> > > If one uses X to set DPMS without using any screensaver at all,
> > > and without even letting the xscreensaver app be executed, DPMS
> > > seems to work ok.
> >
> > I know. It is the gnome screensaver control panel which is broken. I
> > used xscreensaver-demo to set DPMS for xscreensaver. It works fine.
> > Someone has to take a look at xscreensaver-demo and fix the gnome
> > screensaver control panel.
> >
> >
> > H.J.
> ----- End forwarded message -----
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Jim Gettys
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