Comment 12 for bug 1062166

I tried the dconf settings emptythevoid posted above, but the monitors still blank after about 5 or 10 minutes. The other annoying thing is they never shut off, they just go blank. I've found if I've got a video playing with smplayer or something like that, it follows the time limit set in System Settings. So if it's set to power off the monitors after an hour, it'll at least wait that long. It still blanks it in the middle of playing video, though, even with disable screensaver options checked in the video player, it just waits the appropriate amount of time. I think I tried this with movie player and xine as well.

I've got 2 desktop systems both using the nvidia drivers that exhibit this with either the 300 or 310 drivers. Strangely my netbook that uses the same drivers does not seem to have this issue. The screen powers off fine. I should try changing the screen settings options to match the others and see if it starts behaving the same way.