[19761] in Athena Bugs
Re: Dell 150's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Thu Sep 6 16:18:10 2001
Message-Id: <200109062018.QAA29549@hodge-podge.mit.edu>
To: John J Morey <jjmorey@MIT.EDU>
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, hardserv@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Sep 2001 09:20:39 EDT."
<200109061320.JAA03811@hunter.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 16:18:08 -0400
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
>> I have come across a few dells across campus that have blank screens
>> and when you hit a key it goes right to the athena login window.
I looked into this. The problem is that these machines were running
the Xfree86 4 server (not sure how) and had power saving enabled by
default. I submitted a patch to turn it off that should hopefully make
it into a patch release soon.
Garry
