On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:29:20 +0530 Arvind R <[email protected]> said:
> Hi, > > I still have the problem of E17 being reduced to a black screen and > hi-lit mouse cursor if blanking is enabled on E17 and I return to it > after a few minute switch to a VT. screensaver kicked in while u were gone :) xserver said "hey - screenblank! we're idle!" :) e is just following what x said, :) > I have further observed that when switched to VT, E17 load on top > drops to 0. If an elementary player is left playing during the switch, > the sound stops after a few seconds, except when "vlc" backend is > used. The load of the application running the player does not drop to > 0, but e17 does. xserver is probably refusing to process gl buffers swaps or blocking rendering of apps - thus hanging the media player. the vlc back end uses a separate process to do the playback - thus it works and is not blocked. > Upon return, with disabled blanking, there is a rush of video before > continuing - the video had not stopped or suspended. With blanking > enabled, upon return one sees a screen frozen at the time of the > switch-away, which quietly fades to black; and a KILL is the only way > out. > > I don't know if others face this problem. My video driver is 'nouveau' > on a nVidia GeForce 9400 GT card. I do know that nouveau is not very > mature at handling power-save features - but I'm running a workstation > with quite some oomph. sounds like nouvau doesnt make buffer swaps "nops" while gone, maintaining actual state correctly. :) > Can anyone suggest a solution or any way to track down the annoying problem? > > Arvind > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer > Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 > and get the hardware for free! Learn more. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
