This problem was plaguing my friend's PC (which was my less newer rig), but not my new rig. Same distro, same architecture, same hardware manufacturers, mostly same setup. BUT, he was experiencing the screen off thing every 30 seconds, like clockwork.
The FiX is here! I simply went to System Settings > Power Management. Tab over to Activity Settings, and choose to define a special behavior. Check the box that says "Never shutdown the screen", and leave the other two unchecked. I waited about 2 minutes after applying it (didn't even bother to close the settings window), and the screen stayed on. Perhaps the fact that this bug resides in the KDE power management as some goofed-up timer that we cannot control is the reason why it was overridden by this checkbox. I am only one person though, so please, those of you who are still having this happen, please try this method in order to confirm my solution for everyone, which may then be turned into a workable solution until the KDE developers fix whatever is causing this thing to happen on some machines and not others. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/952521 Title: Screen blanking and dpms can't be turned off To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/952521/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
