<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> On 03/21 Patton Echols wrote: <pre wrap="">On 03/21/2008 08:14 AM, Corey Bettenhausen wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">> Jay Ridgley wrote: > </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">>> What task do I need to start, restart, reload, run, configure or load >> that will allow the screensaver to resume the normal display activities? >> I hate having to reboot for this... >> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">> I'm not running 6.06, but on my system gnome-screensaver is running. Do > a "ps aux| grep screen" in a terminal and see if it is listed. Not sure > what could cause it to hang though. > Cheers, > -Corey > > </pre> </blockquote> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72"></pre> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Ok, not an expert, but here's a couple of thoughts. So what I hear OP saying is: System is idle; Screensaver comes on and shows whatever pictures; couple of hours later, screen goes blank. OP can wake up the system and use it, but the screen saver will not come on again. Is that about right? The screen blanking could be one of the power settings designed to do just that. One solution might be to set screen blanking to "never" As to the original question, after the system starts cleanly - when you think everything is running, use the command Corey suggested and see if gnome-screensaver is listed. If it is some other screensaver, then adjust the following as needed. Assuming it is there, wait until the behavior is exhibited again, so when you think it is broken and run the ps command again. If the screensaver process is there the first time, and not the second, then try just starting it: $gnome-screensaver If it is there, but does not start, then (to finally answer your question) try $ killall gnome-screensaver; gnome-screensaver Note: I have not tried this, and don't use 6.06. YMMV and someone else may have better ideas. ----- </pre> Folks, Here is what I have discovered so far: 1. It does not appear to be a hardware related energy saver problem. The screen power indicator LED stays green & my settings in the BIOS appear to be correct. Since this function worked fine before going to 6.06 (05.10 was former version) I don't think that has any bearing on the problem. 2. When the problem occurrs the gnome-screensaver task is running, however, if I bring up gnome-screensaver-preferences window (System->Preferences->screensaver) the screen display window shows a blank screen. I can change the preference from random to any other and it will display that one & if I return back to random it displays a random sample. I then exited the preferences display. 3. If I leave things alone at this point the gnome-screensaver does not change the display. 4. Last thing I tried was to kill the gnome-screensaver and then restart it; THAT SEEMS TO WORK! Earlier today I rebooted and things worked; but while I have been researching this item I have swapped between the two users I have defined on this system and the screen saver went away, up until then I THINK it was working ok... I will try doing that again in the next couple of days and follow up with another post. It does appear that by working with the preferences and killing and restarting the screen saver I am able to avoid a reboot (the Redmond method). Thanks for the suggestions... Cheers, Jay -- Jay Ridgley <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jridgley2@austin.rr.com">jridgley2@austin.rr.com</a> Registered Linux User ID - 9115 </body> </html>