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I'm now running Ubuntu Karmic on my laptop but have noticed that my screen is going blank after 5 minutes of idle. I have set the Power Management settings in ...
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[SOLVED] Screen going blank after 5 minutes -- Fujitsu Siemens Li2727 Laptop
I'm now running Ubuntu Karmic on my laptop but have noticed that my screen is going blank after 5 minutes of idle. I have set the Power Management settings in Gnome to always display screen, but I still have the same problems. Is this a known bug with certain Graphics Drivers?
Thanks in advance
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does moving your mouse or pressing a key bring things back or is it blank until force reboot?
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The screen's brought back to life with a tap of a key or a move of a mouse...
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you've checked the screensaver settings? Also, you've adjusted both the "On AC" and "On Battery Power" in the power managemetn?
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Yeah I've checked the both the AC and battery on the power management but no joy. I'm a bit of an amateur but I've been told about the xorg.conf aswell. Could I add something to that?
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it's not an xorg issue, did you check the screensaver settings?
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Thank you so much for your help! It was the screesaver settings, I really am an idiot! I'm kinda new to the whole Linux thing and I've been getting a bit carried away...
Thank you for your common sense!
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