On 07/12/2015 03:57 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > On Sat, 11 Jul 2015 22:02:59 +0100 Peter Flynn <[email protected]> said: > >> I've been running e17 under Xubuntu 14.04 on my old Dell D810 laptop for >> just under a year. > > so what did you CHANGE on your system that this suddenly happened.
I haven't done any regular (apt-get) updates for a couple of weeks, so there won't have been any systems changes. > you are runing e17... that means you definitely havent updated e. Right. I am using only what comes from the Xubuntu 14.04 repos: no additional packages. (I did try e19 on another machine a while back but it wanted all kinds of additional packages that conflicted with the system-installed software, and it switched from Network-Manager to connman, which at the time was incapable of connecting to some networks). > e17 just hasn't changed. we don't update/maintain it... so... Right. I wasn't considering that e17 itself was in any way involved... > something else changed. ...except possibly that I had accidentally disturbed some screensaver setting by responding No to the confusing pop-up question about waking the screensaver too fast. > some system update started breaking x screensaver behavior? More likely a hardware problem, I think. > logically speaking... it can't be a change in e as it didn't change. > :) Correct. > if no software changed (no system updates as well as no e).. then one can only > conclude... that maybe your hw is now on the way out? Yep. Having done a lot more digging it now looks like the next thing to check is the backlight. > but a sudden change in behavior doesn't simply happen on its own. Yep. There's always a cause. But sometimes it isn't clear, and software settings *do* sometimes change arbitrarily (rarely) because of bugs in settings management that get triggered by unusual but reasonable circumstances. Unless anyone can come up with a reason for that weird error pop-up from e about having "disabled the screensaver too fast" then I am assuming it's a hardware fault. ///Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
