On Friday 02 November 2007 12:51:33 LleMikeByw wrote: > Since this is a collaborative open source web-site (Mr. S. called for > something like this at the Googleplex earlier this summer) I thought I'd > record what I have discovered since writing the bit above. > > >From my own investigation it seems to me that the problem relates to the > > start-up of the screensaver. I don't seem to experience the problem when > screensaver does not start up (although I must admit my testing has no > been extensive and thorough).
I have no screensaver enabled and have the problem too ... sorry > > So one solution may be to disable the screen saver when you are about to > start kdetv. > > Briefly turning to possible solutions - I have searched and it appears > that the designated maintainer of kdetv (Dirk Ziegelmeier) has not > responded to bug reports for some time (since 2005). I am unaware of > anybody else taking up the gauntlet. So I would venture to suggest that > we won't be seeing any solution to this in the near future. > > Personally I am planning my shift to LinuxTV which supports digital > cards because in the UK the analogue signal will shortly disappear > making kdetv redundant for me - perhaps Dirk realised that and decided > there wasn't any more point working on kdetv if Mike wasn't going to be > using it <g>. As said since it locks the kernel it is also a kernel problem -- kdetv lockup linux kernel, process unkillable and ubuntu unrebootable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/81110 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
