Oh....rats.... screensaver activates itself even when you are using the system actively!
Dan Thurman
dant at cdkkt.com
Tue Mar 28 21:03:36 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 12:48 -0800, alan wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Dan Thurman wrote:
>
> > Folks,
> >
> > Odd. Screen-saver kicks in automatically after the preset time
> > even when I am tying away and moving the mouse around... grr...
> > Don't bang the keys - you will just break 'em. It's the damn
> > software me thinks! :-)
>
> The only time I have seen that is if you are having clock problems and ntp
> is running. So if the clock gets changed to something longer than the
> delay period, the screen saver turns on. VMWare has this problem, as well
> as some broken motherboards.
>
Yup! That seems to be the problem! My clock was set to the wrong
timezone somehow after a manual rpm install when pirut abruptly blew
itself out.
Thanks for pointing this out!
Dan
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