xorg DPMS bug work-around
Mike Burger
mburger at bubbanfriends.org
Thu Aug 26 18:48:07 UTC 2004
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, 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.
As a matter of fact, I'm using a GeForce2 card, and having that issue.
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