Hi There is a bug i think when using ATI cards (we always blame the graphics cards!)... after much googling, on a friends machine with the machine problem i came across this to add to the end of /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "ServerFlags" Option "BlankTime" "0" Option "StandbyTime" "0" Option "SuspendTime" "0" Option "OffTime" "0" EndSection Worked for me so you can give it a try. Cheers, Michael On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 21:26 +0000, Iain Lane wrote: > Hello all, > > I switched to Gutsy from Windows a couple of months ago and have been > having a blast ever since. However, there is this one problem that I've > been having ever since the switch and it's pretty annoying. I'd been > living with it for a few weeks until I got a new laptop (eee pc), > installed Xubuntu on it and started seeing the exact same problem. Here > goes: > > After exactly 10 minutes of idleness (no KB or mouse activity), the > screen will go blank (very irritating when watching movies as players do > not seem to be able to disable this, either). This is not a blank > screensaver, as I changed the saver to something else and still just get > a black screen. In gnome-power-manager (System -> Preferences -> Power > Management), all sliders are set to "Never". In gnome-screensaver > (System -> Preferences -> Screensaver), the "Regard the computer as idle > after" slider is at 40 minutes. Here's what I've tried and failed to do > so far - nothing made any difference at all: > > * Disable DPMS in xorg.conf > * Remove gnome-screensaver > * Install xscreensaver instead > * Remove gnome-power-management (all per [1]) > > Anyone have any ideas what would be causing the screen to blank, and how > I can stop it? It seems counterintuitive that all of the applets to > manage this are being ignored. > > Iain > > [1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=582578 > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
