[16118] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.2.8:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ask, and it will be given you)
Sat Aug 8 01:53:06 1998
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1998 00:48:57 -0400
To: Alexei Maznev <maznev@MIT.EDU>
From: "Ask, and it will be given you" <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199808031626.MAA24482@vanna.mit.edu>
thank you very much for reporting this.
We are currently planning to disable this power saving feature on a global
scale in a patch update later this summer.
If you want a quick work around, you can put "xset x noblank" in your login
files (e.g. .Xlogin). I believe that is the correct syntax, but you should
check man xset.
Mike Barker
MIT Information Systems
At 12:26 PM 8/3/98 -0400, Alexei Maznev wrote:
:)System name: vanna.mit.edu
:)Type and version: SPARC/5 8.2.8 (with mkserv)
:)Display type: cgsix
:)
:)What were you trying to do?
:) [Please replace this line with your information.]
:)
:)What's wrong:
:) After the latest athena software upgrade, the computer screen
:) becomes dark if unattended for a few minutes, and then it takes
:) quite a while before it returns to its full brightness.
:) While this might make sense for a public athena station where
:) you're supposed to really work on the computer all the time you're
:) logged in, fro a private workstation like ours this is a very
:) annoying thing.. Any way around this problem?
:) Thank you.
:)
:)What should have happened:
:) [Please replace this line with your information.]
:)
:)Please describe any relevant documentation references:
:) [Please replace this line with your information.]
:)
