From kenny@panix.com Tue Jun 10 23:20:44 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: tuxonice-devel@crca.org.au Delivered-To: tuxonice-devel@crca.org.au X-Bogosity: Ham, spamicity=0.348721 Received: from mail.tuxonice.net (tuxonice.net [67.207.135.122]) by crca.org.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D6BA13808E for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:20:44 +0000 (UTC) X-Bogosity: Ham, spamicity=0.061942 Received: from mail2.panix.com (mail2.panix.com [166.84.1.73]) by mail.tuxonice.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ED172311B8 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:20:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailbackend.panix.com (mailbackend.panix.com [166.84.1.89]) by mail2.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB6C134805 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:20:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hp9800.local (nmd.sbx14005.costaca.wayport.net [98.96.79.230]) by mailbackend.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4B1B1DDF3 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:20:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:20:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Kenneth Crudup To: tuxonice-devel@lists.tuxonice.net Message-ID: Errors-To: kenny@panix.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: [TuxOnIce-devel] Gnome desktop screen's fade taking forever with ToI? Read this X-BeenThere: tuxonice-devel@lists.tuxonice.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: TuxOnIce Development Discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:20:44 -0000 This is all on an Ubuntu 8.04 ("Hardy") 64-bit box, but I suspect that it'll apply to anyone who has the same problem I did where the screen- saver fading out to black when you start to hibernate with ToI takes nearly a *minute*, usually the 2nd time around. Back when I was attempting to use ToI the first time, I'd run into a couple of snags- (1) I'd hang on "Cleaning Up" on resume (which I solved by switching my Firewire driver to the alternate kernel stack) and (2) when the screensaver kicked in after you'd used the Gnome desktop to initiate a hibernate or suspend-to-RAM it would fade very slowly, taking a full *minute* before the hibernation process would kick in. I'd solved that issue by switching to "xscreensaver" instead, but I missed having the "dim screen on idle" that would happen when gnome-power-manager would signal gnome-screensaver to do (via DBus). I suspect that what was happening is that since the gnome-screensaver is a seperate process, it was in the process of trying to fade the screen long after Tux-On-Ice had taken control of the system and that's why it was using 100% of the CPU, but that's only my guess. I was about to go get the latest screensaver package and manually patch it to disable fade-in/outs permanently, but since I've come to like using package managers now (hey, it's nice to not have to keep up with all the versions and dependencies!), I did a search for a PPA first. Turns out that there's an alternate(?) repository for some of the gnome- screensaver utils from Ted Gould; here's his PPA page: https://launchpad.net/~ted-gould/+archive If you select the appropriate build/release and download his gnome- screensaver packages (how you do that is up to you, but I've been getting pretty comfortable with the Synaptics manager), you can take advantage of a patch he's done, which disables fade-in/out on LTSP machines. Move the file /usr/bin/gnome-screensaver to /usr/bin/gnome-screensaver-orig, then put this in gnome-screensaver instead: ---- #!/bin/bash export LTSP_CLIENT=1 exec /usr/bin/gnome-screensaver-orig ---- Problem solved. If the screensaver thinks it's on one of those LTSP machines (Linux Terminal Server Project) it won't attempt to fade (and I think the fact that there's no option other than having to patch the source to get what *should* be a checkbox-able option speaks to the efficably of the gnome-screensaver development team ... :-\ ) Anyway, now I have "dim on idle" and the "supported" screensaver in place (which means fewer hassles when an upgrade is pushed; I only have to recreate this shell wrapper again). -Kenny -- Kenneth R. Crudup Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, Los Angeles O: 3630 S. Sepulveda Blvd. #138, L.A., CA 90034-6809 (888) 454-8181