every so often, screen just goes black

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 19 May 2009, Adam Williamson wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 23:24 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> > On 05/19/2009 09:44 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > >   for the display, mine's set for 30 minutes but it's *absolutely* not
> > > a function of that time value since, as others have mentioned, the
> > > screen can go black totally arbitrarily, like when i'm literally in
> > > the middle of typing something.  can i assume that's pretty much
> > > what's happening to some of the others who have confirmed this?
> > >
> > Yup
> >
> > 30 minutes here same symptom
>
> Can you guys set it to 'never' and see if the behaviour changes?

  ok, that's just the "display" setting under System -> Preferences ->
Power Management,  right?

rday
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