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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Verdana">Hi, all,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Verdana"> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Verdana">The screensaver issue,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Verdana">About the xscreensaver question,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Verdana"> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Verdana">1.</FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Verdana">In fade_screens functions (fade.c) it will call xf86_gamma_fade function at fade.c, I found it will fading in (from black),</FONT> <FONT FACE="Verdana">then first crank the gamma all the way down to 0, then take the windows off the screen, Why are the RGB values setup to 0? And what is mean about the fading in (from black)?</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Verdana">2.</FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Verdana">On Ubuntu and Fedora, when the screensaver is opened and then start(after 1 minute when I set), the screen will be in chaos. Few seconds later, the screen turns to be black</FONT> <FONT FACE="Verdana">as usual. If the user move the mouse or press the key, the screen can not be back again. We can not assure if this bug has been reported in the community. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Verdana"> </FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana"> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Verdana">You can use the xscreensaver tools link:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Verdana"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/download.html"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U></U><U><FONT COLOR="#0033AA" FACE="Verdana">http:/</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U></U><U><FONT COLOR="#0033AA" FACE="Verdana">/</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U></U><U><FONT COLOR="#0033AA" FACE="Verdana">www.jwz</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U></U><U><FONT COLOR="#0033AA" FACE="Verdana">.</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U></U><U><FONT COLOR="#0033AA" FACE="Verdana">org/xscreensav</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U></U><U><FONT COLOR="#0033AA" FACE="Verdana">e</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U></U><U><FONT COLOR="#0033AA" FACE="Verdana">r/download</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U></U><U><FONT COLOR="#0033AA" FACE="Verdana">.</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U></U><U><FONT COLOR="#0033AA" FACE="Verdana">html</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Verdana">. I don</FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana">’</FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana">t suggest use the gnome-screensaver to duplicated the bug on Ubuntu. Because the gnome-screensaver running on startx-desktop. The xscreensaver is a</FONT> <FONT FACE="Verdana">client program running on Xorg. When you installed it, you can run</FONT> <FONT FACE="Verdana">‘</FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana">xscreensaver-demo</FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana">’</FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana"> to setup the screensaver environment, after exit the demo interface, run</FONT> <FONT FACE="Verdana">‘</FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana">xscreensaver -nosplash</FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana">’</FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana"> as a Linux common user (su username), it will start the screensaver af</FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana">t</FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana">er some times.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Verdana"> </FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana"> In my ubuntu workstation environment, when I used the VESA-driver, the phenomenon is normal after wait for 1 minute, if you move the mouse or press the key, the screen can be back again. Once use the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Verdana">G</FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana">eode</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Verdana">-driver</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Verdana"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Verdana">(</FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana">AMD</FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana">)</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Verdana">, the screen will</FONT> <FONT FACE="Verdana">be in black after wait for 1 minute, if you move the mouse or press the key, the screen can not be back again.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Verdana">How can I fix this bug? Can you he</FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana">lp m</FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana">e</FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana">?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Verdana"> </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Verdana">I am looking forward to your early reply.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Verdana">Thanks,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Verdana">Hunk Cui</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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