xorg DPMS bug work-around

[Jonathan Rawle]

Rasmus Back wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 11:53:21 +0100, Jonathan Rawle <jr36 at leicester.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>> 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
> 
> So that's what's causing it! I was wondering why my display would
> suddenly go blank even though I was moving the mouse. One question
> though. do you have an nVidia card? At home I have a GeForce 4, but at
> work my machine has a radeon 9600 and that machine doesn't have this
> blanking problem.

Yes, it's GeForce 4 too. I thought people had reported it with other brands
of card, but maybe I'm mistaken. It's clearly not that widespread though,
otherwise I'm sure there'd have been much more discussion about it!

I had this problem both with the open-source driver and the binary nvidia
driver.

Jonathan