Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 11:12:02 -0400 (EDT) From: William Melanson <wjm@gate.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: xscreensaver seems to have killed me? Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.03.9910151027030.53646-100000@tiwa.gate.net>
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Hello, For the first time in my bsd (3.2) box's long lifetime it locked hard with a reboot the sole cure. It locked while displaying an xscreensaver image. Which one escapes me for finding a displaying image remotely (telnet) is next to impossible unless you are sitting right on top of "monitor top" watching like a hawk. dmesg & /var/log/messages says xscreensaver exited with a (signal 10). I've set up xscreensaver to display either a blank screen or a couple of safe known images (lightning, forest and bubbles). The xscreensaver version is 3.17. I built this program from it's source and not the ports/build program. Could I have left out a known build time variable which may be important. The only autoconf/configure flags I've given it were "--without-pam & --with-xpm". The graphics adapter I have is a Matrox Mystique (4meg) and I'm running 3.3.5 as an xfree86 server. I realize the information I've given is a bit limited but at the moment I'm not on the machine in question. What I'm really looking for is a way for the bsd operating system to power down the monitor after x amount of idle time. Is that possible? If not I could always enable such in the cmos/bios. How about a screensaver or screen lock program substitute outside of xscreensaver, xlock(more) or beforelight? Sorry about the long winded blurb. Anything you could toss back at me related at all whatsoever to the above would be great... - William To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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