On Aug 26, 2004 at 15:29, Jonathan Rawle in a soothing rage wrote: >Rasmus Back wrote: > >> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 11:53:21 +0100, Jonathan Rawle <jr36@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >>> There is a bug in xorg that causes the screen to blank at random while >>> the system is in use. See for example >>> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-May/msg07823.html >>> >>> This is a generic xorg bug, not one particular to Fedora: >>> http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=792 >> >> So that's what's causing it! I was wondering why my display would >> suddenly go blank even though I was moving the mouse. One question >> though. do you have an nVidia card? At home I have a GeForce 4, but at >> work my machine has a radeon 9600 and that machine doesn't have this >> blanking problem. > >Yes, it's GeForce 4 too. I thought people had reported it with other brands >of card, but maybe I'm mistaken. It's clearly not that widespread though, >otherwise I'm sure there'd have been much more discussion about it! It happens to me on my Radeon 9200 as well. DPMS kicks in 10 min after I start up X and then 10 min later before the aktual 90 min that I specified in KDE. It also happened on my Matrox G550 as well before I switched cards. N.Emile... -- Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org) Switch to: http://www.speakeasy.net/refer/190653 "An organization dries up if you don't challenge it with growth." -- Mark Shepherd, former President and CEO of Texas Instruments 10:59:32 up 59 days, 4:14, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
