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

[David Christopher Chipman]

Giles Orr wrote:
> 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.)
>
>   
Hi Giles,

Thanks for that suggestion, about checking the cables. That seems to 
have fixed things.  But to Tyler Aviss, yes it is an Intel on-board 
graphics chip. Thanks guys,

-David
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