Re: Graphics blanking out

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Steve Baker (sbaker++at++link.com)
Tue, 24 Mar 1998 08:04:46 -0600 (CST)


On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Bemis, Suzie CEI-TACCSF wrote:

> We have two modified 'perfly' executables running on one computer with
> two graphics engines. One perfly runs on DISPLAY :0.0 and the other on
> :0.1. Rather than let the code determine how many screens are available
> we hardcoded the number of screen in the perfly code to be one. So far
> things seem to run okay, but the graphics goes black/blank sporatically.
> We then have to do a 'stopgfx' and 'startgfx'. At first the blanking
> out happened only when we ran the perfly code, but today it happened
> again when we weren't running anything on the computer. We're running
> on an IRIX 5.3 ONYX, and with Performer 2.0. I've sent a trouble report
> to SGI, but I was wondering if anyone else out there has had a similar
> problem.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions/comments.

This may be a silly suggestion - but you have checked that the
screen-saver isn't kicking in havn't you!

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