On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 12:02 -0500, Aaron Phillips wrote: > Hello, > Has anyone experienced X going blank at random times for between 1 and > 5 seconds at a pop? I started out with a demudi mm kernel (I'm > running DeMudi) and never experienced this problem. Once I ran my own > built-from-source > 2.6.14-rt13 kernel, I saw this behavior consistently. It's very annoying. > Basically, while in X, the screen would go blank every so often for a > short period and then reappear. Periods between blackouts would be > between 1 second and 1 minute. I am wondering if it has something to > do with the video having too low of a priority since this is a > realtime-preempt kernel. I tried setting X to a higher prio with > chrt, but that had no effect. > Anyone have an idea? Which cpu do you have? I have seen this coupled also to keyboard repeats being too fast because of kernel problems in keeping time (in my case related to using AMD X2 dual core processors). The X blackouts were actually the screensaver kicking in. It is supposed to be fixed... -- Fernando
