Comment 23 for bug 81110

On Friday 02 November 2007 12:51:33 LleMikeByw wrote:
> Since this is a collaborative open source web-site (Mr. S. called for
> something like this at the Googleplex earlier this summer) I thought I'd
> record what I have discovered since writing the bit above.
>
> >From my own investigation it seems to me that the problem relates to the
>
> start-up of the screensaver. I don't seem to experience the problem when
> screensaver does not start up (although I must admit my testing has no
> been extensive and thorough).

I have no screensaver enabled and have the problem too ... sorry

>
> So one solution may be to disable the screen saver when you are about to
> start kdetv.
>
> Briefly turning to possible solutions - I have searched and it appears
> that the designated maintainer of kdetv (Dirk Ziegelmeier) has not
> responded to bug reports for some time (since 2005). I am unaware of
> anybody else taking up the gauntlet. So I would venture to suggest that
> we won't be seeing any solution to this in the near future.
>
> Personally I am planning my shift to LinuxTV which supports digital
> cards because in the UK the analogue signal will shortly disappear
> making kdetv redundant for me - perhaps Dirk realised that and decided
> there wasn't any more point working on kdetv if Mike wasn't going to be
> using it <g>.

As said since it locks the kernel it is also a kernel problem