Blank screen after 10 min idling - need to reboot [SOLVED]

I've installed Arch on a Thinkpad Z61M. Everything seemed to go off OK. I have not yet installed X.
After about 12 minutes of inactivity the screen goes black and I cannot revive it. It is not a total lockup because it still responds to the keys (reboot),
I've tried every key press I can think of and have unplugged and plugged hack the power lead.
I fiddled with entries in logind.conf but no difference. By googling I found some recent references to a kernel bug. Is this a possibility?
Last edited by acampbell (2013-05-17 15:59:36)

As I said originally, I have not installed X yet so there is no xset command.
See https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=157579 - Not exactly relevant but in the same territory.
The 3,8 kernel seems to be buggy; I tried it on my Debian Sid system and various problems occurred, although not this one. There is quite a lot about it on the Debian users' list.
Is it possible to try a different kernel in Arch?

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