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From: edmoy@violet.berkeley.edu
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Subject: Re: Dimmer Cdev Problems.
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Date: 22 Dec 87 18:51:24 GMT
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In article <982@csun.UUCP> abcscavc@csun.UUCP (Aviram Carmi) writes:
>Dimmer seemed to work fine the first time I tried it.  But, after
>I changed from 2 to 256 colors it stopped working.  It would show 
>on the Control Panel, but without the sliding scale and the strings 
>attached to the buttons. I tried again with either 2 or 256 colors.  
>Now it does not even show up in the Control Panel. It would still 
>ShowInit upon startup; sometimes with the X'ed icon, sometimes the 
>regular icon.  When it shows the regular icon, it does work, i.e. 
>it would dim the screen to the level for which I had set it when it 
>did show up on the Control Panel the first time.  Now it only shows 
>the X'ed icon, and does not work at all.

Yes, I'm having problems with Dimmer also.  Without changing the colors,
I notice that there is about a 1 in 2 or 3 chance of getting the X'ed icon
on bootup.  If I access through the Control Panel, it complains about
a resource not being found and displays a blank control panel.

I now keep a second copy of Dimmer on disk and use it to make a good
copy of Dimmer to put in the System Folder should that one fail.  It's
a bit annoying, but at least it works.

Edward Moy
Academic Computing Services
University of California
Berkeley, CA  94720

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