On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 01:30:54PM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote:
> 
> Look in /etc/X11/XF86Config under the Monitor section. There is 
> a line
>    Option      "DPMS"
> try commenting it out or adding a "0"/"Off" on that line.

Thanks to Carl and Florin.  Turning off DPMS did the trick.

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