Session active, not inhibited, screen idle

[Piotr Morgwai Kotarbiński]

Binary package hint: xorg

From time to time my display blanks regardless of the fact that I'm not idle and then the icon in the notification area appears saying 'Session active, not inhibited, screen idle' and some more text including info that I should notify my distributor. See screenshot for the full text.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Nov 19 06:14:57 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
MachineType: LENOVO 7459EU2
Package: xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu10
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-15-generic root=UUID=4d3467e8-0632-4c3e-9f46-7c34466a4fcb ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu10
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu4
 libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.0-1ubuntu2
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu1
SourcePackage: xorg
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic x86_64
XorgConf: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'
dmi.bios.date: 03/17/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 6DET42WW (2.06 )
dmi.board.name: 7459EU2
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr6DET42WW(2.06):bd03/17/2009:svnLENOVO:pn7459EU2:pvrThinkPadX200:rvnLENOVO:rn7459EU2:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 7459EU2
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X200
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 architecture: x86_64kernel: 2.6.31-15-generic

[Piotr Morgwai Kotarbiński (morgwai)]

I'm not 100% sure but from reading the article from icon description (http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2009/08/17/gnome-power-manager-and-blanking-removal-of-bodges/) it seems to me this is general problem with xorg core, not driver specific.