Update on - Re: Really excessive screen behavior

[Robert Moskowitz]

When Firefox is busy doing something.  Like getting all the info to 
present cnn.com, or waiting for the video download from dafhachaim.org, 
I get this crazy constant flicking to the fake screensaver while trying 
to do something in QEMU.  I get a bit of it switching workstation 
sessions, but not like I get in QEMU.


Once Firefox 'stablizes' (cnn.com loaded or daf download going) this 
behavior stops.  Or at least is only a once in a while event.


On 07/05/2016 01:33 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>  My calling foul on tumblerd was premature.  Other than eating up one
>
>  CPU, it was not causing the 'screensaver' problems. I still get it 
>  once in a while, but not like I was getting with the 4.4.13 kernel.  I 
>  did kill tumblerd; I was viewing some CDs with wedding pictures via 
>  gthumb yesterday.
>
>
>  On 07/05/2016 02:10 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> > On 07/04/2016 08:25 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> >> Problem seems to be back, and I see tumblerd eating up most of one cpu.
> >> Something I did caused this to run.  Can I just kill it or do I need to
> >> kill more than it?
> >>
> > Tumbler appears to be something pulled in by XFCE.  It's a dbus 
> > service for creating thumbnails, so something must be calling it. I 
> > would think that's separate from your screen problem.
>
>  So it seems.
>
> >
> > It sounds like there's a graphics driver issue.  What graphics 
> > chipset do you have? 
>
>  Been so long since I looked for this info, what is the command for 
>  it?  This is a Lenovo x120e
>
> > Or possibly a window manager issue.  Could you try out a different 
> > desktop for a while and see if it still happens there?
>
>  Not really; I would have to install one.  I could boot from a liveCD 
>  with GNOME, but I do have real work to do while I am testing...
>
> >
> > You keep mentioning QEMM.  Do you really mean qemu?
>
>  Brain fried.  Yes QEMU.  It has been a long time since running 
>  Quarterdeck's qemm on a 386 to get access to all that extra memory. :)
>
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