[PLUG] Is my monitor dying?

[Bill Barry]

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 8:18 AM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 May 2011 17:29:05 -0700
> John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> dijo:
>
> Last night I turned off the radio and a couple hours later it went into
> screensaver. I restored from the screensaver and the screen came up
> immediately - no flashing.
>
> When I went to bed I was prayed to the computer gods that it was fixed.
> But when I tried to restore it this morning it flashed for almost ten
> minutes. I looked again in /var/log/Xorg.o.log, but the file is
> unchanged - no additions. I think I need a better connection to the
> computer gods.
>
> Whatever is causing the problem is related to how long the screensaver
> has been on. But note that the screensaver stops after a while and the
> screen goes just black. And it also happens at the login screen after
> rebooting.
>

Maybe there's a bug in the screensaver. You can turn it off and see if
the problem still shows up, or switch to another screensaver.

Bill