From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18349 invoked by alias); 6 Mar 2011 16:14:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 18340 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Mar 2011 16:14:33 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,TW_FV,TW_VW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (HELO smtpout.karoo.kcom.com) (212.50.160.34) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 16:14:28 +0000 Received: from 213-152-38-55.dsl.eclipse.net.uk (HELO [192.168.0.5]) ([213.152.38.55]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 06 Mar 2011 16:14:25 +0000 Message-ID: <4D73B2E9.1050309@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 16:14:00 -0000 From: Jon TURNEY Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com CC: vasanthappa@gmail.com Subject: Re: X session turns white after display is turned back on References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-03/txt/msg00010.txt.bz2 On 06/03/2011 14:06, Natarajan Murugaiyan wrote: > I am using cygwin on a Dell windows 7 laptop, running X windows > through startx command with fvwm2 window manager. > > The laptop display gets turned off after a period of inactivity. When > I log back in, the X > session and all clients inside it are white. I have no problems with > the X session prior > to when display got turned off. > > > tail of /var/log/Xwin/XWin.0.log: > [ 19432.919] winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and > successfully opened the display. > [ 19506.037] winWindowProc - WM_DISPLAYCHANGE - new width: 0 new > height: 0 new bpp: 0 > [ 19603.148] winWindowProc - WM_DISPLAYCHANGE - new width: 0 new > height: 0 new bpp: 0 > [ 19682.599] winWindowProc - WM_DISPLAYCHANGE - new width: 0 new > height: 0 new bpp: 0 > [ 19682.599] winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Could not create > primary surface: 8876024e This is DDERR_UNSUPPORTEDMODE, which doesn't make a great deal of sense. I'd suggest the first thing you try is updating the Windows display drivers. > Ran cygwin setup to update laptop to latest version of cygwin. Problem > is present after cygwin update. -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/