SOLVED!!!!!!!!! Thanks to Jan T Kim (much thanks)
I think the standby, suspend and off values should be non-zero, the xset man page says that "a value of zero disables a particular mode", so all modes seem disabled here. So ``xset dpms 10 20 30'' might be worth trying (well, for testing, you'll want longer times in the long run).
Ok, these values are seconds right?.. because i just unticked that Activate screensaver tick, and the monitor is turning off very quickly hehe.. Ok so after realising what you had asked me to do, i started debugging, and i beleive if this sounds likely that the flikering off and on begins in the 2nd stage of suspend, after setting dpms to 10 20 30, 10 30 60, 10 60 120, and recognising it was doing it after the 2nd alloted amount of seconds.... so I have now set to 60 0 0 and there are no problems whatsoever...
Regards this "xset" is it launched the same time the screensaver is?? So could I see it to DPMS 60 0 0 and then to turn screensaver on after 10mintues will it be 11minutes and then the screen will go into standby?? or should i set it to 660 0 0?
----------> Just to answer the questions in order for correct debugging of what causes the problem (and because I had wrote all this before playing around and realising the true potential of the xset dpms command)
Are you using DVI or VGA?
VGA currently as upgraded my motherboard and no DVI port :(
Do you use GNOME. There was an issue with GNOME and Debian
I use gnome and not using debian (officialy) as I am using Ubuntu 8.10 (which I know is based on debian, but I am right in saying im not using debian right ;) )
You said later you are still learning whereas this kernel version number, unless Ubuntu have invented their own numbering scheme, is a development work-in-progress and therefore for people developing the kernel and the brave. The latest stable version is 2.6.28.6.
Ha ha sorry was in windows at the time, and was trying to remember this number from grub.. it is actually 2.6.27-11-generic
Thanks an bunch guys
Alex