Screen fades to black periodically

Al · Post by Al » Sat Jul 08, 2006 12:00 am

Hi All,

Loving the Linux Oolite on Ubuntu, but occasionally I get a strange effect. My entire screen appears to fade to black - this takes a couple of seconds and seems to be rescued by key presses (possibly requires a reduction in speed). Is this a "blackout" feature to represent the boredom of deep space, or have I just got a weird screensaver issue.

BTW - I play full screen and haven't tried disabling my screensaver or monitor powerdown. I don't think these two options are responsible since both require long timeouts, while this effect occurs often within less than a minute of the last keypress.

Cheers

Alan

Post by **winston** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 4:23 pm

This happened to me - never happened with FC2 which used xscreensaver, but happened with FC5 which uses gnome-screensaver. I turned it off, problem solved.

Al · Post by Al » Sat Jul 08, 2006 9:39 pm

Cheers, I turned off the screensaver and that seems to have fixed it - weird, it mustn't register keystrokes in the fullscreen oolite session.

Alan