[Bug 14869] Screen goes black every few seconds with ati 6.8.0

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14869


Alex Deucher <agd5f at yahoo.com> changed:

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             Status|REOPENED                    |RESOLVED
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--- Comment #4 from Alex Deucher <agd5f at yahoo.com>  2008-03-12 10:19:47 PST ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> Alex,
> 
> The Xine developer had me run the following command which caused the screen to
> blank just as it does when I play a video:
> 
> xset dpms force on
> 
> He stated that running this command would "confirm whether it's a driver
> issue".  I'm assuming that this command should not cause the screen to blank.

This isn't a driver issue.  That command forces the displays on.  If you run
'xset dpms force off'  your monitors be forced off.  If you run 'xset dpms
force on' your monitors will be forced on.  forcing an output on or off may
include some flicker depending on what programming sequence is required to do
it.  What xine is doing is abusing that command to prevent the screen saver
from kicking in by repeatedly executing it.


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