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

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 03/09/2011 10:28 AM, Roger Leigh wrote:
> 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

No.  XFCE.

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

It's exactly the *opposite*, since it blinks off when I'm in the 
middle of doing something.

> 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.

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