Turn off X.org power management
 

Something in my setup at the moment is cause problems when my screen goes into standby. When I move my mouse it comes back but as soon as I click anything X freezes. If I kill X the framebuffer goes all screwy and the only way to rescue is a hard reset. I'm not using a laptop and I generally manually turn my screen off when I leave for more than 10mins anyway so I'm wondering how I can turn all power mamangement settings off? I've run 'xset -dpms' but that didn't seem to make a difference so is there something else I'm missing?

I'm running X.org 7 if that makes a difference and my video card is a Geforce 6600GT using the 8178 drivers if anyone knows of common problems with that version?

Thanks for any help :)

Try: or to see if it helps.

My laptop was doing that too- I think the BIOS was blanking the screen. In my case there is an alt-f11 key that stops that, at least it *seemed* to work.

Try Option "DPMS" "false" in the monitor section in your xorg.conf.

That'll turn the monitor off but thanks for the suggestion ;)
Thanks, I'll definitely add that one.
Ha I never thought of that! Something else to check out.

Thanks for all the suggestions :D