That has all the earmarks of something having set the screen blanker to go off with a delay of just a few seconds. I think most video players temporarily disable the screen blanking. Usually that setting is under some "power management" control panel thing. You might see if you can find it and disable it. I've also see systems that had this effect because something screwy in the kernel was running the clock at warp speed so it thinks a long time has passed since it blanked the screen, but it hasn't really. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx