RE: Graphics blanking out

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JSC-ER7 (hadi.m.tjandrasa1++at++jsc.nasa.gov)
Tue, 24 Mar 1998 08:58:53 -0600

See man page on blanktime.
You can put in the APP: system("blanktime 0").
To verify that the screen saver is kicking in, after invoking your program,
use blanktime X (say X=9000) on another shell window, and the screen should
blank at a constant rate - indicating the screen saver is on.

Hadi

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> From: Bemis, Suzie CEI-TACCSF[SMTP:suzie++at++TACCSF.KIRTLAND.AF.MIL]
> Sent: Monday, March 23, 1998 2:41 PM
> To: 'info-performer++at++sgi.com'
> Subject: Graphics blanking out
>
> 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.
>
> Suzie Bemis
>
>
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