On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:14:30 -0400
Joachim Thiemann <thiemann@gel.usherbrooke.ca> wrote:

> Hello,
> has anyone else been experiencing this?  About 20 or 30 minutes after 
> starting x from the console with startx, the screen goes blank and the 
> monitor goes into suspend, even though mouse&keyboard are being used.  Any 
> activity brings everything back (so the behaviour is just like a regular 
> screensaver) and then it won't happen again unless the actual X screensaver 
> kicks in.

Just a thought: Do you by any chance run rdate(8) or ntpdate(8) from cron?
A large initial time difference could be the cause. 

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tnn