[oi-dev] Date change and screen blank

[Klaus Ziegler]

Hi Gary,

I had the same problem with xsreensaver, and I was the one
who did that last #PR for it. It's now at version: 6.16 - right ?
You need to install the xscreensaver/hacks* packages, and
your list should read this:
desktop/xscreensaver                              6.16-2026.0.0.0       
   i--
desktop/xscreensaver/hacks                        6.16-2026.0.0.0       
   i--
desktop/xscreensaver/hacks/hacks-gl               6.16-2026.0.0.0       
   i--

Afterwards, logout/login of the system, and fireup the properties,
somewhere in them there is a button, where you can choose
which background color you do want to have, just choose black.
I guess this feature has been fixed upstream, which was working
out of the box before. Hope that helps.
For that timezone change I'd rather ask at illumos-dev

BTW. thanks again for doing all the work you did for SPARC !!!
Since, yeseterday I do have a kernel running pn BL1000 which
was assemled using GAS :-)

Rgds
Klaus

On 10/17/26 22:57, Gary Mills wrote:
> I recently did an OS upgrade from 2026-05-31 to 2026-10-16 on one of
> my systems.  With the new BE, I noticed two problems.  The first, and
> the reason for the upgrade, was with the time change.  Our premier
> announced that the entire province would change to permanent daylight
> saving time at the end of October.  I'm seeing some peculiar output
> from "zdump" now.  Here's an example:
>
>      <mills at intel:779>$ zdump -i -c 2024,2027 America/Winnipeg
>      
>      TZ="America/Winnipeg"
>      -       -       -06     CST
>      2024-03-10      03      -05     CDT     1
>      2024-11-03      01      -06     CST
>      2025-03-09      03      -05     CDT     1
>      2025-11-02      01      -06     CST
>      2026-03-08      03      -05     CDT     1
>      2026-11-01      02      -05     EST
>      2026-11-01      14      -05     EST
>      2026-11-02      02      -05     EST
>      2026-11-02      14      -05     EST
>      ...
>
> There's a transition every day in November, 12 hours apart.  This does
> not happen with Fedora Linux.  I assume it's an illumos problem, and
> not an OI problem.  It may affect only "zdump", and not the date
> displayed by the OS.
>
> The second problem is with screen blanking.  With "xscreensaver", the
> system does not blank the screen before login.  To me, a blank screen
> means a black screen with the video shut off.  It also does not blank
> the screen after login, but the screen lock GUI does appear, on a
> transparent background.  The "lock screen" menu item appears to do
> nothing.
>
> I also tried "mate-screensaver", the new default.  It still does not
> blank the screen before login.  It does blank the screen after login,
> but does not shut off the video.
>
> I'd better tell you a bit about this system.  It uses a BIOS boot, not
> an EFI boot.  It's not using Nvidia graphics, but the built-in Intel
> graphics on the CPU.
>
>

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