[desktop-discuss] Re: [xwin-discuss] bug in b50 sparc with pgx32 driver

Garrett D'Amore garrett_damore at tadpole.com
Tue Jan 2 20:29:09 PST 2007


James Andrewartha wrote:
> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>   
>> More confirmation that dtgreet is involved.  It appears that dtgreet
>> does not use dpms.  When the screen is blanked, xset -q shows that the
>> monitor (DPMS) is on, but the screen is blank.
>>
>> Running "xset s reset" activates the screen.
>>
>> I think dtgreet is not unblanking the screen properly.  Perhaps it
>> expects DPMS to do this, or somesuch.  This is all very strange,
>> because, again, on my Radeon 7000 x86 system I've not seen any such
>> problems.
>>     
>
> Was there any resolution to this? I'm seeing the same problem on an E250
> with a GFX8P running SXCR b54.
>
>   

I don't recall seeing a solution.  But I've not looked into it recently,
admittedly.  My SPARC systems have all been turned off lately, as I've
been working on Linux (blech) instead.

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Garrett D'Amore, Principal Software Engineer
Tadpole Computer / Computing Technologies Division,
General Dynamics C4 Systems
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