xorg DPMS bug work-around

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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 at leicester.ac.uk>
>> 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.

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