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

[James Andrewartha]

On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 20:29 -0800, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> 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.

I did some experimenting, and svcadm restart cde-login results in a
white screen, which if I follow it up with a svcadm restart
console-login causes a crash (and dump) every time.

James Andrewartha
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