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mikshaw

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Posted: Oct. 09 2007,13:36

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xset s off
noblank
xset s off

"noblank" should be used as part of "xset s".
Having "xset s off" twice is unnecessary, and I'm not sure the two s options used here are compatible. "off" turns off screen blanking entirely, while "noblank" displays a pattern, if your hardware supports it. If "off" is used, I assume no blanking at all will occur.

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s The s option lets you set the screen saver parameters. This option
accepts up to two numerical parameters, a 'blank/noblank' flag, an
'expose/noexpose' flag, an 'on/off' flag, an 'activate/reset' flag,
or the 'default' flag. If no parameters or the 'default' flag is
used, the system will be set to its default screen saver character
istics. The 'on/off' flags simply turn the screen saver functions
on or off. The 'activate' flag forces activation of screen saver
even if the screen saver had been turned off. The 'reset' flag
forces deactivation of screen saver if it is active. The 'blank'
flag sets the preference to blank the video (if the hardware can do
so) rather than display a background pattern, while 'noblank' sets
the preference to display a pattern rather than blank the video.
The 'expose' flag sets the preference to allow window exposures (the
server can freely discard window contents), while 'noexpose' sets
the preference to disable screen saver unless the server can regen
erate the screens without causing exposure events. The length and
period parameters for the screen saver function determines how long
the server must be inactive for screen saving to activate, and the
period to change the background pattern to avoid burn in. The argu
ments are specified in seconds. If only one numerical parameter is
given, it will be used for the length.

There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with your torsmo command. Could you post the error?

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Posted: Oct. 09 2007,15:59

Quote (bpsg119 @ Oct. 09 2007,09:34)

Upgrading should be trivial, right?

If I understand how the frugal install is working, everything important is being backed up for me with exception to the menu.lst file. I should be able to format/install 3.4.4 without a problem.

Out of curiosity is v4.x going to be upgradeable as seamlessly?

Just be sure to read the release notes for upgrading on the forum threads.

I'm assuming v4.x will have something similar when released, but there will probably be more drastic changes required on the user's end...

danielp

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Posted: Oct. 13 2007,16:37

bpsg, I had exactly the same problems as you while trying to set up DSL for a digital picture frame.

thehatsrule gave the answer to my problem, which was:

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1) missing a space between the first "." and "/"

That fixed a lot of problems. I'm such a newbie, I have no idea what that command actually does. Could anyone explain what happens when you start a script with a dot and space?

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Posted: Oct. 13 2007,17:51

The dot by itself (dot-space-filename) is shorthand for the "source" command. So .<space>/etc/init.d/dsl-functions is the same as source /etc/init.d/dsl-functions. This reads the given filename in as if it were part of the current script or shell.

If you omit the space, the dot followed by a slash indicates the current directory. So if you were in /home/dsl and ran the command ./etc/init.d/dsl-functions it will try to execute /home/dsl/etc/init.d/dsl-functions, and probably fail because that file doesn't exist.

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