[mythtvnz] screen saver acting up

Aaron Drysdale Aaron.Drysdale at provencocadmus.com
Sun May 10 23:13:03 BST 2009


I'm not sure about your screen saver problems, but note that in Ubuntu
9.04 they have turned off CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE by default, because too
many newbies were pressing it by mistake (I can't see how). You can turn
it on again - can't remember how, just google it. It's been a bit
controversial, so there's plenty posted about it.

Aaron
-----Original Message-----
From: mythtvnz-bounces at lists.linuxnut.co.nz
[mailto:mythtvnz-bounces at lists.linuxnut.co.nz] On Behalf Of Mark van
Dijk
Sent: Monday, 11 May 2009 10:05
To: mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz
Subject: [mythtvnz] screen saver acting up

hi guys - hopefully a simple question for someone...   I have recently 
done a clean install of Mythbuntu 9.04.  For my output, i use nVidia's 
binary drivers through an S-Video cable to my TV.

 
If i don't do anything in MythTv for a few minutes, the TV screen 
slowely fades to black (takes about 10 seconds).  Once the screen is 
dark, then any press of the remote will instantly bring it back.  All 
good so far - HOWEVER - if happen to press any remote key *while* the 
screen is fading to black, then the TV screen will continue to fade and 
will never come back again.  Oddly, the mouse pointer is still left on 
the screen. 

 
No keyboard/mouse/remote movement will activate the screen anymore.  
Previously, with Mythbuntu 8.10, i could do CTRL-ALT-BKSP, which would 
let me logout and back in again, however this no longer works on 
Mythbuntu 9.04.  The only way i have found to fix things is to 
CTRL-ALT-F1 to a root console and then manually restart the machine.

 
Does anybody know what is going on?

 
Cheers

-- 
Mark van Dijk

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