[3881] in testers
Re: Athena Release Questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roger A. Roach)
Tue Aug 18 11:45:24 1998
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Aug 1998 11:36:26 EDT."
<199808181536.LAA05594@the-light-fantastic.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 11:45:14 EDT
From: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>
> (You can use "bugs" rather than "testers" now that the release has
> gone public.)
Will do. Thanks.
>
> > That is sufficiently vague that it perked my interest. Also, prior
> > to the last update, my monitor would power off after 5 or 10 minutes
> > of inactivity (I did not actually time it). Now, it does not pwoer
> > off at all. I was wondering if there is a variable I should know
> > about.
>
> "xset s blank" enables power-saving; "xset s noblank" disables it and
> causes the X to come up. 8.2.9 sets noblank at login time on suns,
> since monitor power saving mostly generated complaints.
Excellent. Thanks.
>
> > Also, after the last release, I am frequently getting "Unable to
> > start X. Entering console mode." when I logout. I have to do a ^D
> > to start X again. Was this a change in the last update.
>
> There were no changes to dm or xlogin in the 8.2.9 update, so it's
> probably not related to the update. This would be a bug. To help me
> diagnose it, please at some point add a line to your /etc/syslog.conf:
>
> user.debug /var/adm/userdebug
>
> and then, as root, "touch /var/adm/userdebug" and reboot (or restart
> the syslogger if you know how). Verify that messages are being logged
> to /var/adm/userdebug. The next time you see the condition occur
> after that, please mail me the log file.
Have done the change. I'll mail you the file the next time it occurs. Might
also be an interaction with the new Netscape (I use CNN's Custom News and
detach the scrolling news region.)
Thanks.
Roger
