Subject: Re: screenblank and mouse movement
To: None <darcy@netbsd.org>
From: Zafer Aydogan <zafer@aydogan.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/16/2006 15:58:57
Probably. I'm using XFree86 4.5.0 and FreeBSD is using X.org, I think.



2006/12/16, D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@netbsd.org>:
> On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 14:57:21 +0100
> "Zafer Aydogan" <zafer@aydogan.de> wrote:
> > I've noticed some strange oddity in the screenblank functions since a while.
> > I'm tracking current (4.99.6) and I'm using icewm as a window manager
> > and an USB Mouse.
> > In general everything works fine, but if I'm not using the keyboard
> > for 10 minutes but the mouse in X, the screen blanks and I can only
> > bring it back by pressing any key on the keyboard.
> > The mouse movements aren't recognized at all. This is somehow bad,
> > when reading articles or working mainly with a mouse.
> >
> > Any ideas what could be the reason ?
>
> I don't know but I recently noticed the same thing on a FreeBSD box.  I
> am pretty sure that we are looking at an X issue here, not a NetBSD one.
>
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> D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@NetBSD.org>
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