Re: X crashes if I'm idle

[Marsh <marshg@charter.net>]

    i.a.uemlianin> X is in VESA mode, as the Thinkpad has unsupported
    i.a.uemlianin> Radeon video.

I have a Toshiba Satellite 1115-S103 with the unsupported Radeon chip
set as well.  So, I'm stuck with e VESA driver :P, but at least it works
well enough.  I'm going to try X 4.2 when I get some spare time.

    i.a.uemlianin> If I'm in X (Gnome) and I'm idle for a while (10
    i.a.uemlianin> mins?) X crashes. 

I had a similar problem on my Satellite.  It turned out that DPMS was
the culpret.  My X would crash every 20 minutes precisely.  This turns
out to be the exact value of the DPMS Standby parameter in the
XF86Config-4 file.  Anyway I simply commented out DPMS and X stays up
now.