XP 'Blank' Screensaver & Connection Drop...

[Peter Bunn]

James:

Thanks for your reply...

For now, I've put the screensaver setting back where it's been all 
along... until last week when I started having problems.  I'm assuming 
it's 'fixed' now.

I switched to the 'Blank' screen thinking it might be easier on the 
display and easier on my Dad... it seems both were false premises.

I guess most modern CRTs don't get 'burn in' anyway and Dad found it 
confusing that the computer was on but the screen was dark.

I guess I tried to fix something that wasn't broke.

Peter B.

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>Peter,
>
>It sounds like the machine is actually powering down the display hardware, 
>in which case VNC cannot pull pixel data back from it.  The latest VNC 
>Enterprise & Personal Edition servers include code to explicitly request 
>that display hardware be powered back on, so you might try using one of 
>those as the server to determine whether it addresses the problem you're 
>seeing.
>
>Regards,
>
>--
>Wez @ RealVNC Ltd
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On
>> Behalf Of Peter Bunn
>> Sent: 19 March 2009 19:14
>> To: VNC Mailing List
>> Subject: XP 'Blank' Screensaver & Connection Drop...
>> 
>> Hello:
>> 
>> This may be somewhat off topic, but if someone has an answer, I would
>> much appreciate it.
>> 
>> I've been using RealVNC to help administer my Dad's computer (Windows
>> XP)
>> for about eight months now and it has been working nearly flawlessly.
>> 
>> During the entire time, I've had the screensaver (on the server
>> machine)
>> disabled.  Recently, I set the screensaver to 'Blank'... which is not
>> properly a screen saver, I guess, but rather puts the screen into sort
>> of
>> a sleep mode.  (I'm pretty sure Dad's monitor is still a CRT.)
>> 
>> There is a setting in the RealVNC Server Properties (under the 'Inputs'
>> tab) to 'Allow input events to affect the screensaver'.  This has
>> always
>> been checked.
>> 
>> After setting the 'Blank' screensaver, it appears as though connection
>> via VNC is blocked when the screen is dark (or asleep ?).  I'm now
>> getting "Connection closed unexpectedly" errors immediately after
>> (otherwise) successfully connecting to the server.
>> 
>> Is this the expected behavior from this particular screensaver mode
>> and/or would the same thing happen if I had the option (in XP's Power
>> Options) set to 'Turn off monitor' after x minutes?
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> Peter B.
>> 
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