I have a problem which i've reported to #morphos a few times before.
Blanker is not activate on Ambient screen.
It works on every other screen.
I have Blanker set to 1min and DPMS-Off to 3 mins.
On Ambient screen Blanker is not activated even after 5-10-15 mins,
if i switch to another screen Blanker will start after 1 min as it should.
It happens randomly, even just after a boot or sometimes it
works for a few times, but then Blanker wont activate on Ambient
screen until the next boot. It doesnt matter what sw running
or been ran before.
Im using "Solar Winds" blanker module but i've tried other modules as well (with same results).
Another problem with my favorite blanker, Flurry: it works fine for preview but
when it is in action its broken - screen looks like as multiscan on pal tv. The system doesnt crash everything is ok,
and if i press preview again Flurry will be displayed fine. Every other
blanker works both in preview and in action (except on Amibent screen).
Has anyone got similar problems?



[ Edited by sadddam on 2009/1/23 17:44 ]

[ Edited by sadddam on 2009/1/23 17:45 ]

Hi sadddam!

Armed with curiosity and patience I tested all the blankers and here they are:

Aswarm: working
Atlantis: working
BlockTube: not working. Tested in different screenmodes gave the same result.
Boing: working
Butterflies: working
Coor: working
CosmiqueVoyage: working
Feathers: working
Flame: working
Flurry: not working. Testede in different screenmodes gave the same result
Fractal3D: not working, even in different screenmodes.
FuzzyFlakes: working
Galaxia: working
Gears: not working. The same in different screenmodes.
LMatrix: working
Hop Along: working
Luppa: working
Maze: working
Moire: working
Morph3D: not working. Tested in many screenmodes with no succes
Nowhere: working
PicView: working
Pig Invasion: working
Plasma: working
QixLine: working
Solar Winds: working
Spikeball: not working, whatever screenmode you use
Sproinger: working
The Blots: working
Toaster: working

I'm using a ATI Radeon 9250 (but MorphOS:Utilities/GraphicBoard says it's a 9200p) with 128 MB.
I confirn that all the blankers work in preview mode but some of tem (those above) don't in "real" mode. I setted blanker time at 1 minute and after that time blanker started.
I tried different screenmodes only with blankers that didn't work because all the others started from Ambient screen with no problems.

@saddam: paste your blanker.conf please

oops, soory, havent noticed your request till now:)

here it is:

Name="solarwinds.btd" Type=0x0 Width=1600 Height=1200 Monitor=0x0 BlankTime=600 DPMSSuspendTime=0 DPMSStandbyTime=0 DPMSOnTime=3000 EventFlags=0x1F OffFlags=0xF
Blanker="solarwinds.btd"
Tag=0x804254A8 Value=0x0

ok, problem found , been working on it.
fixed blankers will be included in the next release.
thx jambalah for the test btw:)