On 06/03/2011 14:06, Natarajan Murugaiyan wrote: > I am using cygwin on a Dell windows 7 laptop, running X windows > through startx command with fvwm2 window manager. > > The laptop display gets turned off after a period of inactivity. When > I log back in, the X > session and all clients inside it are white. I have no problems with > the X session prior > to when display got turned off. > > > tail of /var/log/Xwin/XWin.0.log: > [ 19432.919] winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and > successfully opened the display. > [ 19506.037] winWindowProc - WM_DISPLAYCHANGE - new width: 0 new > height: 0 new bpp: 0 > [ 19603.148] winWindowProc - WM_DISPLAYCHANGE - new width: 0 new > height: 0 new bpp: 0 > [ 19682.599] winWindowProc - WM_DISPLAYCHANGE - new width: 0 new > height: 0 new bpp: 0 > [ 19682.599] winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Could not create > primary surface: 8876024e
This is DDERR_UNSUPPORTEDMODE, which doesn't make a great deal of sense. I'd suggest the first thing you try is updating the Windows display drivers. > Ran cygwin setup to update laptop to latest version of cygwin. Problem > is present after cygwin update. -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
