Screen power saves and goes off and desktop is lost on power up

[ianseeks]

On Wednesday, 1 March 2017 17:20:51 GMT René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Wednesday March 01 2017 16:12:26 ianseeks wrote:
> > I've got a situation where if i leave my computer long enough, with myself
> > logged in, that the built power save on the screen turns the screen off,
> > the desktop is lost (its a clack screen)  when the screen comes on again,
> > my only
> What's a clack screen?
Oops..  Typo.. Black screen

> > solution is to ctrl-alt-backspace.
> > Anyone else with this issue?
> 
> I had something similar on an N3150 notebook with Cherryview GPU, but that
> was with an older kernel.
> 
> Does `xset dpms off` make any difference?
I try that and see what happens

thanks
> R.


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