Bug 231044

Summary:	Installation Update - unattended screen blanks
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.2	Reporter:	Scott Couston <scott>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Marcus Schaefer <ms>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i386
OS:	SUSE Other
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Description Scott Couston 2006-12-29 04:08:07 UTC

During an update installation if the PC is left unattended for some time the screen will blank out  if disk changes are not made immediately.

Historically, we have invented GUI installations and former fuel gauges so that the user will not think the installation has frozen by assuring the user some activity is taking place.

Giving the user a totally blank screen at ANY stage of an installation is begging the user to see no HDD disk light blinking and the ARE going to by instinct hit the reset button, well before they try the keyboard.

Comment 1 Lukas Ocilka 2007-01-02 15:27:54 UTC

Snwint, is that a feature of Inst-sys?

Comment 2 Lukas Ocilka 2007-01-10 17:08:00 UTC

This bug is about screensaver in inst-sys -> snwint
Maybe Qt/ncurses-related -> sh, kmachalkova

Comment 3 Stefan Hundhammer 2007-01-10 18:05:05 UTC

What would yast2-qt or yast2-ncurses have to do with screen savers?
This is an X11 issue. The screen saver should be disabled during installation.

BTW I observed the same behaviour updating to 10.2. This is really annoying.

I think ms would be the right person for this issue. This sounds like something for the inst-sys /etc/X11/xorg.conf or for the start scripts.

Comment 4 Marcus Schaefer 2007-01-11 15:06:04 UTC

Hmm, I didn't change anything in that area and I didn't introduce a
screen saver functionality intentionally. The Monitor section of the
inst-sys configuration doesn't include DPMS which means it is not
activated by default.

I have no clue why the screen should go black except the screen itself
provides some kind of power save

Stefan could you imagine what could cause this effect ?

Comment 5 Stefan Dirsch 2007-01-11 16:14:59 UTC

No.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 221272 ***

Comment 6 Stefan Hundhammer 2007-01-11 17:39:12 UTC

I am pretty sure that it's not the display itself. It might choose to go black if it is only to display black content, but during installation you always have some greyish dialog open.