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Screen goes blank during video playback.

Asked by Claude Dickerson

Currently running 11.04 but had the same problem with 10.10. When watching video (either streaming or from file) screen will go black about every ten minutes. The problem is not with the screnn saver or power management -- both are disabled. After a Google search I found where xorg.conf could be modified but I can't even find xorg.conf. Surely, there must be a simple solution to this continuing problem...

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

If you make an xorg.conf file and populate it properly, it will be obeyed.

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#2

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config

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Claude Dickerson (dicker-c) said : 		#3

I'm still confused. Gathering as much info as I could online, my thought is to create /etc/X11/xorg.conf containing just the following code:

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "blank time" "0"
    Option "standby time" "0"
    Option "suspend time" "0"
    Option "off time" "0"
EndSection

Does that look like it might work?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

Possibly, if not then look in power settings for screen dim as well as the screen saver settings.

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Claude Dickerson (dicker-c) said : 		#5

I'll give it a try and post the result. Thanks...

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Claude Dickerson (dicker-c) said : 		#6

Outstanding! The power settings were fine but I did create the xorg.conf and that seems to have solved the problem. Many thanks!

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Claude Dickerson (dicker-c) said : 		#7

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.