Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 22 May 1996 11:04:07 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Fritz Ganter <> | Subject | Re: Problem when closing SLIP connection pre2.0.4 and pre 2.0.6 |
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On Tue, 21 May 1996, Ulrich Windl wrote:
> On 20 May 96 at 13:29, Andre.van.Leeuwen@cwi.nl wrote: > > > Whenever I fire up a slip connection (via dip -k) the screen goes blank. > > The system is still running because I can login via a virtual console. > > According to ps it seems all processes are still running. This started to > > happen about a week ago, I am not sure which kernel version started the problem > > but know both pre-2.0.4 and pre-2.0.6 suffer from this problem. > > > > Does anybody else experience the same problem? > > Could it be related to the accelerated xserver I am running? > > Not an answer, but my screen also becomes black for an ionstant when > I use "clock -r" to read the CMOS clock. It seems it only happens > when I do this for the first time. I never wanted to report this, but > now...
It looks like you are changing the system time a little bit, so the screensaver thinks: "Oh, another 10 minutes are gone, time to do my job...".
Fritz "who dances with the Linux" Ganter.
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