Subject: Re: Xsun and screen blanking
To: NetBSD/sparc Discussion List <port-sparc@NetBSD.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@planix.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/28/2007 16:07:17
At Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:27:36 -0500,
Michael Lorenz wrote:
>
> Hmm, this might be the problem then - Xsun listens to /dev/ms0 and
> /dev/kbd0 IIRC, whatever method it uses to determine the time since
> last activity in any of those might not work properly with wscons on
> top ( like the old screensaver binary which relies on modification
> times of the device nodes, that's been broken for a while now )
I don't have wscons -- my kernel is 1.6.2_STABLE.
I do see X watching /dev/mouse and /dev/kbd:
$ fstat -p 1581
USER CMD PID FD MOUNT INUM MODE SZ|DV R/W
root XsunMono 1581 wd / 2 drwxr-xr-x 1024 r
root XsunMono 1581 0 /dev 18 crw-rw-rw- kbd rw
root XsunMono 1581 1 /dev 17 crw-rw-rw- mouse rw
root XsunMono 1581 2 /var 843037 -rw-r--r-- 388 w
root XsunMono 1581 3* internet stream tcp f05e3160 *:6000
root XsunMono 1581 4* unix stream f05e2240
root XsunMono 1581 5 /dev 813 crw-rw-rw- bwtwo0 rw
root XsunMono 1581 6* unix stream f05e2980 <-> f05d4800
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