On 9/6/06, Bart Schaefer barton.schaefer@gmail.com wrote:
been having sporadic instances where the screen simply goes black for about 2 seconds. It has nothing to do with whether I'm using the mouse or keyboard (or not)
Just in case anybody was paying attention to this ...
Evidently the blanking has something to do with the machine being on a KVM switch with another computer (which happens to be a Mac Mini, but that doesn't seem to be relevant as it was powered off). I thought I had ruled out the KVM before I posted the first time -- among other things, why would rebooting the linux machine fix a failure in the KVM? -- but the problem has not recurred since plugging the monitor directly into the computer.
This isn't 100% conclusive because I've gone days or weeks without this happening in the past, but it's the first time I've gotten the problem to go away without rebooting.