Re: screen being blanked every 2 or 3 seconds?
Look at the manual page for xset (man xset). In particular
look at the s and the dpms options. Sounds like your
blanking parameters are being set wrong somewhere.
Jeronimo Pellegrini <pellegrini@mpcnet.com.br> wrote:
: Hello.
: I have woody + kernel 2.4.0-test7 running on a Pentium III for some
: time, and everything was ok until some days ago, when I got some
: strange problem with X.
: It suddenly begins to blank the screen (actually, there's a slight
: flash, as if the monitor got into sleep mode or something) -- but this
: is when I'm working. Typing or moving the mouse brings everything
: back, but 2 or 3 seconds later it goes dark again. It eventually stops
: if I try to minimize and bring back windows, use a console, etc, but I
: couldn't determine exactly what makes it work properly again. And I
: also didn't notice what triggers the problem...
: I tried this with X 4.0.1 and with 3.3.6, and the same problem
: happened. Also tried different kernels -- 2.4.0-test7 and
: 2.4.0-test[3,4,5] (didn't try the 2.2.X yes, but I will). I don't
: think it's the kernel or X, I believe it's some of the packages that
: were upgraded recently in woody...
: Did anyone else have this problem?
: I'm not using gdm, and I also tried stopping gpm, disabling ACPI in
: the kernel and BIOS, disbling/enabling APM in the BIOS... Didn't
: help.
: Any ideas?
: Thanks,
: J.
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