Screen Saver problems

[oli]

The 'None' option for the screensaver has ceased to work, the screen refusing to go blank after the specified period. All other settings are working fine.
I've tried powering down, unplugging for a few secs, and Sean's tip of powering down and holding 1 when the slimdevices logo comes up, all without success.

Any ideas?

Cheers!

Oli

[kdf]

On 2-Oct-05, at 6:17 PM, oli wrote:

>
> The 'None' option for the screensaver has ceased to work, the screen
> refusing to go blank after the specified period. All other settings are
> working fine.

'none' as a screensaver means just that: no screensaver.
it only goes blank if the player is off, since there is no display when
off.

-kdf

[max.spicer]

Actually I think it still maintains the auto-dimming feature. If you set a different brightness level whilst in screensaver mode, then set your screensaver to none, the brightness will still be changed at the point when the screensaver would have kicked in. You could therefore enable a screensaver, set brightness to zero whilst the screensaver is active, then set screensaver to none. This is useful, but I have not found a way (on the client at least) of setting the "screensaver" brightness without activating a screensaver, changing the brightness, then setting it back to none.

Max

On 2-Oct-05, at 6:17 PM, oli wrote:

>
> The 'None' option for the screensaver has ceased to work, the screen
> refusing to go blank after the specified period. All other settings are
> working fine.

'none' as a screensaver means just that: no screensaver.
it only goes blank if the player is off, since there is no display when
off.

-kdf

[rme]

Logically, none for a screensaver should make it go dark with nothing displayed after the timeout. However, it doesn't work this way and I think Dean had it as a to do to fix that at some point.

The way to get things to work the way you want it is to go to home/player settings/display and set brightness when idle and brightness when off to 0. That way any screen saver that would display are totally dark anyways.

[max.spicer]

No it shouldn't. No screensaver means leave the screen as it is. If you set your Windows screensaver to none, you don't expect your monitor to go dark after ten minutes. In Windows, there is a Blank screensaver, but this is very different to None.

Max

Logically, none for a screensaver should make it go dark with nothing displayed after the timeout. However, it doesn't work this way and I think Dean had it as a to do to fix that at some point.

[dean]

When the player is powered OFF, the None screensaver should blank the
screen.

When the player is powered ON, the None screensaver shouldn't do
anything.

(There is a separate dimming feature, which only dims the screen, not
blank it if the player is ON and not used for some time.)

Is this not the behavior you are seeing?

On Oct 3, 2005, at 7:13 AM, max.spicer wrote:

>
> No it shouldn't. No screensaver means leave the screen as it is. If
> you set your Windows screensaver to none, you don't expect your
> monitor
> to go dark after ten minutes. In Windows, there is a Blank
> screensaver,
> but this is very different to None.
>
> Max
>
> rme Wrote:
>
>> Logically, none for a screensaver should make it go dark with nothing
>> displayed after the timeout. However, it doesn't work this way and I
>> think Dean had it as a to do to fix that at some point.
>>
>
>
> --
> max.spicer
>
> The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible
> teeth
> and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws
> but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye
>