every so often, screen just goes black

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

Adam Pribyl <pribyl at lowlevel.cz> writes:
> This is "normal" behavior of g-p-m for a long time. It manages
> timeouts by itself setting usuall Xorg DPMS to 0. I've reported a bug
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=543956 some time ago, but
> this is probably the best it can do. This has nothing to do with this
> problem, unless Xorg changed its behavior and is kicking in DPMS at 0,
> instead "never".

Perhaps the people experiencing the blanking problem could set the dpms
timers to some huge value and see if the problem goes away.   Eg.

        xset dpms 1000000 2000000 3000000

-wolfgang
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Wolfgang S. Rupprecht              Android 1.5 (Cupcake) and Fedora-11