[mythtv-users] MythTV review from a long-time TiVo user

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Friday 04 March 2005 2:37, Bob Cottingham wrote:
> Donavan Stanley said:
> > On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 09:20:21 -0600 (CST), Bob Cottingham
> > <bob at bobnvic.com> wrote:
> >> Donavan Stanley said:
> >>> Myth will allow your existing screensaver to kick in as needed,
> >>> provided you have one of course.
> >>
> >> This doesn't appear to be entirely accurate to me. I believe that 
> >> Myth 
> >> only supports DPMS. If you turn on screensavers in KDE or use
> >> xscreensaver, the screensaver will kick in regardless of whether 
> >> you 
> >> are watching a show or not. I tried this again last night just to 
> >> be 
> >> sure and it started up 10 mintutes into our TV show.
> >
> > I've just done a quick instrumentation of the code and verified that
> > the calls are being made to disable/enable the screensaver properly 
> > as 
> > well as turn off dpms.  Why they're not working for all users, I'm 
> > not 
> > sure and right now I'm too tired to dig into it.
> 
> I just downloaded the latest cvs and tried with xscreensaver. It still
> starts while watching a recording. I didn't try with the kde 
> screensaver. 
> I have no idea why it might work on others and not mine. I'm running
> Mandrake 9.1. If there is anything I can do to help track it down, 
> please 
> let me know. I would be very appreciative of your help.

Just wanted to chime in here -- I tried last night with 2/12 CVS.  DPMS 
behaves properly, but xscreensaver doesn't.  Myth doesn't end the 
screensaver when remote buttons are pressed.  I'll try this weekend 
after I upgrade to current CVS.

-JAC