Randomly Blanking/Power-saving Display in X (Centos 5.5)

[Giles Orr]

On 17 September 2010 00:56, David Christopher Chipman <dchipman-rYHPKw+MWrk at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>   For about a month now I've had my screen go blank, when I move the mouse
> or press a key. Some times it makes my computer unusable for a couple of
> moments. It has most often happened while I'm surfing the web (in Firefox,
> ver. 3.6.9) with several tabs open. However, it also happened while I was
> writing this message.   David

I assume you've checked the cords and connections, but ...  If you
have a bad video wire and the mouse cord is wrapped around it, mouse
movements could trigger strange behaviour.  (Unlikely, yes, but that's
a pretty weird occurrence.)

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