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Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu Screen fading out and in. Post 303003229 by kkeevv on Sunday 10th of September 2017 07:35:16 AM
Old 09-10-2017
Screen fading out and in.

I have two DELL OPTIPLEX 330 x64 PCs with dual core (2.2ghz x2), 2gigs ram. First one is dual boot with Ubuntu on top of Windows XP pro 86. Second one is stand alone Ubuntu.

The CRT monitors on both PCs periodically fade as if they are going into standby mode. But they don't go completely black. This only last several seconds. I have disabled 'TURN OFF SCREEN WHEN INACTIVE', and this happens while I'm typing or moving the mouse. There are no screen savers installed. The first one doesn't do this when I log on to WinXP. The second PC seems to do it more often than the first. This happens with nothing other than a browser loaded.

Also, the second PC runs slow and there seems to be a lot of HDD activity. I don't know if these problems are related. I suspect this is due to pending hardware failure. I'm going to pull the HDD and ram out and put it in a third OPTIPLEX I have on hand and see what happens.

Anyone (WHO HAS EXPERIENCED THIS PROBLEM) have any idea what causes the screens to fade like this? In all my years I have never seen this type of anomaly

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glslideshow(6x) 						XScreenSaver manual						   glslideshow(6x)

NAME
glslideshow - slideshow of images using smooth zooming and fades SYNOPSIS
glslideshow [-display host:display.screen] [-visual visual] [-window] [-root] [-duration seconds] [-zoom percent] [-pan seconds] [-fade seconds] [-titles] [-letterbox | -clip] [-delay usecs] [-fps] [-debug] [-wireframe] [-cutoff int] DESCRIPTION
Loads a random sequence of images and smoothly scans and zooms around in each, fading from pan to pan. This program requires a good video card capable of supporting large textures. To specify the directory that images are loaded from, run xscreensaver-demo(1) and click on the "Advanced" tab. OPTIONS
-visual visual Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific visual. -window Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default. -root Draw on the root window. -duration seconds How long each image will be displayed before loading a new one. Default 30 seconds. -pan seconds How long each pan-and-zoom should last. Default 6 seconds. With the default settings of -pan 6 -duration 30, each image will be displayed five times (30/6), and then a new image will be loaded. If you want a new image to be loaded at each fade, then set -pan and -duration to the same value. -fade seconds How long each cross-fade between images should last. Default 2 seconds. If set to 0, then no cross-fading will be done (all tran- sitions will be jump-cuts.) Note that fades are included in the pan time, so -fade cannot be larger than -pan. -zoom number Amount to zoom and pan as a percentage. Default: 75, meaning that 75% or more of each image will always be visible. If set to 100%, then the images will always fill the screen, and no panning or zooming will occur. (Images will still smoothly fade from one to another if -fade is non-zero.) -titles Whether to print the file name of the current image in the upper left corner. -letterbox In "letterbox" mode, when an image is not the same aspect ratio as the screen, black bars will appear at the top/bottom or left/right so that the whole image can be displayed. This is the default. -clip In "clip" mode, when an image is not the same aspect ratio as the screen, we will zoom in further until the image takes up the whole screen. This is the opposite of -letterbox. -delay number Per-frame delay, in microseconds. Default: 20000 (0.02 seconds.). -fps Display the current frame rate, CPU load, and polygon count. -cutoff number If the frame rate we are achieving is lower than this, then panning, fading, and zooming will be disabled. Default 5 FPS. The idea here is that if your machine can't maintain a decent frame rate, then it must not have fast 3D hardware, so we might as well behave in a simpler manner. Set this to 0 to disable this check. -debug Prints debugging info to stderr. -wireframe Another debug mode. ENVIRONMENT
DISPLAY to get the default host and display number. XENVIRONMENT to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property. SEE ALSO
X(1), xscreensaver-demo(1), xscreensaver-getimage(1), xscreensaver(1), carousel(6x) photopile(6x) COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2003-2005 by Jamie Zawinski, based on an earlier version that was Copyright (C) 2002 by Mike Oliphant. Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in sup- porting documentation. No representations are made about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. AUTHOR
Jamie Zawinski and Mike Oliphant. X Version 11 5.15 (28-Sep-2011) glslideshow(6x)
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