On Friday 04 March 2005 2:37, Bob Cottingham wrote: > Donavan Stanley said: > > On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 09:20:21 -0600 (CST), Bob Cottingham > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Donavan Stanley said: > >>> Myth will allow your existing screensaver to kick in as needed, > >>> provided you have one of course. > >> > >> This doesn't appear to be entirely accurate to me. I believe that > >> Myth > >> only supports DPMS. If you turn on screensavers in KDE or use > >> xscreensaver, the screensaver will kick in regardless of whether > >> you > >> are watching a show or not. I tried this again last night just to > >> be > >> sure and it started up 10 mintutes into our TV show. > > > > I've just done a quick instrumentation of the code and verified that > > the calls are being made to disable/enable the screensaver properly > > as > > well as turn off dpms. Why they're not working for all users, I'm > > not > > sure and right now I'm too tired to dig into it. > > I just downloaded the latest cvs and tried with xscreensaver. It still > starts while watching a recording. I didn't try with the kde > screensaver. > I have no idea why it might work on others and not mine. I'm running > Mandrake 9.1. If there is anything I can do to help track it down, > please > let me know. I would be very appreciative of your help.
Just wanted to chime in here -- I tried last night with 2/12 CVS. DPMS behaves properly, but xscreensaver doesn't. Myth doesn't end the screensaver when remote buttons are pressed. I'll try this weekend after I upgrade to current CVS. -JAC _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
