I have used SETI@home for years. I could not use the SETI@home screensaver because it would not render properly on my monitors. I have been simply using the “blank” screen saver.

The version of BOINC I just installed has a nifty BOINC screensaver that is shown when configuring the screensaver and each time it loads. It then sucks in the bad SETI@home module and my displays are again messed up.

Is it possible to run the BOINC-only screensaver and have it not invoke the SETI@home module?

... Thom

For me when running SETI@home it displays a garbled SETI@home display on my Windows XP machine and a correct SETI@home display on my Visat machine. The Windows XP version honors the "go blank after n minute" option and the Vista version does not.

What I would like on both machines is the BOINC screensaver that is displayed when you configure the screensaver. I would set it to go blank after a minute. The advantage is that when it kicked in I could see (when I chose to look) that BOIC was enabled and running. After a minute it would then go blank.

This is appartently not spported currently?

... Thom

This is appartently not spported currently?

... Thom

I asked one of the developers of BOINC and he told me it'll be possible to implement in BOINC 6. I added it as ticket [trac]#540[/trac] in Trac.

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Thanks. I will just go back to the blank screens for a while.

The Vista version seems to operate as the designers had inended. The SETI@home display can be turned off after a minute. It is a dual CPU machine and it randomly chooses one of two stateswhen the screensaver kicks in ... runs the SETI@home display or reports that that BOINC is suspended.

The only reasonany of this matters is that I keep showing SETI@home to new people and attempt to get them to participate.

... Thom

I hope you know that there are some 70+ other projects running under BOINC as well? Just so you don't have to pressure people into looking for ET only. :-)

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I do know an pass it on.

SETI@home was the original and it caught my attention many years ago due to Marshal Brain and "How Stuff Works". It implements one of those ideas that is simply RIGHT on many many levels.

(BTW I was not running BOINC on my Vista machine prior to this conversation because I was not aware that it was supported under Vista. Tweaking the website could help others with this.)

... Thom

It's only partly supported (there are many problems with Vista). But some people have success with it.

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