every so often, screen just goes black

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

David <dgboles at comcast.net> writes:
> Maybe an Xorg default.
>
> http://linuxreviews.org/howtos/power/xorg_dpms/

Curious, Xorg does appear to be initialized with the DPMS timers all set
to "0".

$ xset q
...
DPMS (Energy Star):
  Standby: 0    Suspend: 0    Off: 0
  DPMS is Enabled
  Monitor is On

Looks like gnome and Xorg both are trying to DPMS blank the screen.

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