xorg DPMS bug work-around

[Jonathan Rawle]

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


I have discovered a work-around you might like to try. In the ServerLayout
section of xorg.conf I have added:

        Option         "StandbyTime"  "30"
        Option         "SuspendTime"  "0"
        Option         "OffTime"  "0"

This appears to solve the problem on my system.

Once logged in to X, it is possible to change the DPMS settings using xset
(or the KDE Control Centre) and everything continues to behave as
expected.

I hope this might be of use to anyone else who had the same problem!


Jonathan