On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 12:48 -0800, alan wrote: > On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Dan Thurman wrote: > > > Folks, > > > > Odd. Screen-saver kicks in automatically after the preset time > > even when I am tying away and moving the mouse around... grr... > > Don't bang the keys - you will just break 'em. It's the damn > > software me thinks! :-) > > The only time I have seen that is if you are having clock problems and ntp > is running. So if the clock gets changed to something longer than the > delay period, the screen saver turns on. VMWare has this problem, as well > as some broken motherboards. > Yup! That seems to be the problem! My clock was set to the wrong timezone somehow after a manual rpm install when pirut abruptly blew itself out. Thanks for pointing this out! Dan
