On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 12:37 PM Beartooth <bearto...@comcast.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 13:20:50 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > > > On Mon, 2023-08-28 at 19:09 +0000, Beartooth wrote: > >> One of my F38 machines has taken to demanding that I login over and > >> over. I want not to have to login at all. (I'm the sole user, and at > >> home.) Fwiw, I'm running xscreensaver under Mate. Where and how do I > >> reconfigure? > > > > I 'spose we should confirm, do you mean the screen saver is kicking in > > and you have to unlock it. Or are you getting logged out? > > I'm actually getting logged out; I have to give my username (id > est, confirm the default) and type my password every time. > Kernel.org has been working clean up power management, see <https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/power/apm-acpi.html>. Buggy ACPI implementations have been causing problems with wake from sleep, etc. Some vendors have firmware updates that may help. Are all your machines the same? > > > Some xscreensavers were known to crash the display. > > I've never seen that happen. > > My practice after installing every new release has been to tell > dnf first to remove mate-screensaver and then to install xscreensaver. The > latter is still working fine on the other two machines in front of me. > > I've just reversed that: told dnf to install mate-screensaver and > remove xscreensaver. I found out immediately that the former doesn't let > me manage my screen in any of the ways I want. > > Would it help to reboot? Could there be a problem with my KVM > switch?? > Easy to test by taking KVM switch out the loop -- there have been issues with the EDID getting corrupted on resume from sleep. See: <https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/edid.html> -- George N. White III
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