Comment 6 for bug 591699

As another experiment, I changed the kernel to this mainline one:

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/drm-next/current/linux-image-2.6.34-996-generic_2.6.34-996.201006021548_i386.deb

When the screen blanked, the network died as before. But then moving the trackpoint or pressing a key didn't wake up the screen either; it just stayed completely black.

At the moment it's looking like my best workaround is going to be to turn off everything which might possibly blank the screen (in which case I may as well reinstall amd64 too)