Subject: Re: Screen blanking/monitor off ~ 20 mins after starting X
To: Joachim Thiemann <thiemann@gel.usherbrooke.ca>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@embedtronics.fi>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/17/2004 20:44:35
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 12:14:30PM -0400, Joachim Thiemann 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.

I see this on all my 2.0beta machines.  Don't know what causes it (I _think_
the problem came with XFree 4.4.0, but I could be wrong).

  -jm