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threePhase

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From: United States

Registered: 2010-06-11

Posts: 8

Monitor fades out under certain conditions

Hello all,

This seems more of a hardware issue than anything however I hope to gain some insight by posting about this problem here. Whenever I'm being presented with a screen that has little or no text (i.e.: login screen at CLI) my monitor will fade out to black. If enough text starts to fill the screen, it will fade back in. It happens consistently under these conditions. My video setup is a nVidia GeForce 8800GT and an ASUS VH238H LED Monitor. Also mind you this is a fresh install of Arch. Has anyone else had faced this issue? Any input would be greatly appreciated.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Monitor fades out under certain conditions

Is it DPMS https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Di … _Signaling ?
It will kick in after 10 minutes of inactivity e.g. when you don't move your mouse or press any key - is this the condition you're experiencing?

knopwob

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From: Hannover, Germany

Registered: 2010-01-30

Posts: 239

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Re: Monitor fades out under certain conditions

My monitor (a samsung) behaves like this, when "auto-contrast" is enabled. The darker the displayed image gets, the lower the backgroundlight of the monitor. Maybe your monitor has something similar

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stqn

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Registered: 2010-03-19

Posts: 1,191

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Re: Monitor fades out under certain conditions

My LG monitor does this (turn the backlight down) when I'm watching a dark scene in a video... It's dumb and annoying.