From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: From the time I installed RH8 on my Dell Dimension 8200 I've gotten warnings about "xscreensaver-demo" not found, perhaps because of some .cshrc path wierdness So yesterday I decided to run it from the command prompt. Big mistake. It seemed to come up ok, I configured it, noticed dpms was not enabled, and enabled it. Now whenever the screensaver comes on my display goes unrecoverably haywire. I'm running at 1400x1050 on a GDM-5510 monitor. The display divides into about 32 equally spaced horizontal slices and every other one seems to be offset by some degree. Moving the mouse doesn't do anything. I have to log out and in again to reset. When I try the "cntrl-alt-f1" trick the screen goes to sleep and I can't get it back without rebooting. As you can imagine, this is driving me nuts. Also, if I do an xset -dpms to try to turn off dpms, that causes it to go haywire immediately. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.run "xset -dpms" 2.kablooie! Additional info:
More info: disabling the screensaver in xscreensaver-demo didn't help. Here are some salient bits from my X config. Nothing in this has changed in a while. Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "GDM-5510" HorizSync 30.0 - 130.0 VertRefresh 48.0 - 170.0 Option "dpms" EndSection Section "Device" # no known options #BusID Identifier "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)" Driver "nv" VendorName "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768 " "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection
I commented out the load "dri" and "dpms" option lines and this seems to make the problem go away...at least, I can't reproduce it immediately with the "xset -dpms" like I used to.
I determined that the commenting of the "dpms" option was sufficient. Resetting the Xserver does clear the problem, but of course then I lose my session and any unsaved work.
Using the links to create an attachment, could you please post your full config and log files? (/etc/X11/XF86Config & /var/log/XFree86.0.log)
Created attachment 90323 [details] As requested, the config I've commented out the offending dpms line
Created attachment 90324 [details] xfree log as requested Again, this is now that the system works...if you want the log from when it goes kablooie let me know
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