From: tholen@antispam.ham   
      
   Dave Yeo  writes:   
      
   >>> This sounds like you had a full screen session with focus when the crash   
   >>> happened. What are you using to put the monitors too sleep?   
      
   >> It's called "Blackout".  From the first few lines of the readme file:   
   >>   
   >> ======================================================================   
   >> This file is part of the Blackout screen saver.       v1.00 1996-06-29   
   >> Copyright (C) 1995, 1996 by Staffan Ulfberg.   
   >> ======================================================================   
   >>   
   >> So, 15 years old, but works fine.  Blackout certainly puts the monitors   
   >> to sleep.  Whether it uses a full screen session to do so, I don't know.   
   >> I do know that I otherwise had no full screen sessions with focus going.   
      
   > Yeh, that is what I guessed you were using, and what you saw was how    
   > OS/2 handles a crash in a full screen session.   
      
   Reading the rest of the readme file for Blackout, it says that it can   
   blank PM and OS/2 Full Screen sessions, but not DOS full screen sessions.   
   Nowhere does it say that it creates a full screen session to do its thing   
   (nor does it say that it doesn't).  Apparently there's more to it than just   
   configuring the video card's signal to the monitors.  I have my own "blank"   
   program that creates a full screen session with the cursor turned off to   
   create a truly blank screen, but it doesn't save any power; just avoids   
   burn-in.   
      
   >>> Also is there anything in popup.log?   
      
   >> Didn't even think to look, but indeed there is (in popuplog.os2, that   
   >> is).  Nice call.   
   >>   
   >> 05-19-2011  23:08:57  SYS3175  PID 0062  TID 0001  Slot 0089   
   >> U:\FIREFOX\FIREFOX.EXE   
   >> c0000005   
   >> 1482bb93   
   >> P1=00000001  P2=0000000d  P3=XXXXXXXX  P4=XXXXXXXX   
   >> EAX=4205bec0  EBX=fc37fb5e  ECX=16600ba0  EDX=165cdbf0   
   >> ESI=4205bec0  EDI=4205bed4   
   >> DS=0053  DSACC=f0f3  DSLIM=ffffffff   
   >> ES=0053  ESACC=f0f3  ESLIM=ffffffff   
   >> FS=150b  FSACC=00f3  FSLIM=00000030   
   >> GS=0000  GSACC=****  GSLIM=********   
   >> CS:EIP=005b:149ac702  CSACC=f0df  CSLIM=ffffffff   
   >> SS:ESP=0053:0012fd98  SSACC=f0f3  SSLIM=ffffffff   
   >> EBP=0012fdb0  FLG=00212282   
   >>   
   >> XUL.DLL 0001:0041bb93   
      
   > I'll pass this to Rich besides asking if there is a trap file (*.trp) in    
   > your FFv4 directory.   
      
   The only .trp files are in the directories for the 20101204 and 20110210   
   betas.  None in the v4 directory.   
      
      
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