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Re: Monitor blinks off in the middle of mouse/kbd activity



On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 10:05:30AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> >
> >I must wait 20ish minutes until it goes into sleep mode for it to
> >respond to a kbd press or mouse wiggle.
> >
> >There's nothing in syslog or Xorg.0.log to
> >
> >Attached is the contents of "dmesg | tail".  The difficulty with
> >blaming nouveau is that this started while I was still using the
> >nvidia driver.
> >
> >Could it be that my (old) video card or not-so-old-but-cheap
> >monitor are on the fritz?
> >
> 
> Your monitor blinks off in the middle of doing things, That's a
> pain. What does the 20 mins have to do with it?
> 
> Get another card or monitor whichever is the cheapest and try again
> if we can't blame nouveau. (You switched?)

Running GNOME?  If so, it could be #370692

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=370692

Try running xscreensaver under XFCE and see if it makes a difference.
Try "xset q" as shown in the bug report to see if this really is the
same issue.


Regards,
Roger

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