every so often, screen just goes black

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 04:31:56PM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:09:10PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 00:42 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > 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?
> > 
> > Yup.
> 
> Sorry to hit this thread late.  My setting was already "never."
> 
> I filed a new bug, and the time to error was a little under 4 hours
> IIRC.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501601

By the way, I apologize for the inadvertent thread pollution.  My
issue is clearly different from the original issue, although it might
be related.

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