any ETA on improved ATI drivers?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sat, 4 Jul 2009, Sharpe, Sam J wrote:

> 2009/7/4 Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>:
> >
> >  i ask since a problem i was having with the radeon driver during
> > the test phase -- screen suddenly going dark, literally right in
> > the middle of keystrokes -- is coming back and seems to be getting
> > more frequent.  never caused any breakage, just disconcerting.
>
> Oh good - I'm not the only one.
>
> I have the same with the "radeon" driver. Occasionally both screens
> go black for a second or two, then come back as if nothing had
> happened.

  not quite the same here -- i have to provide *some* user interaction
to restore the desktop.  as another poster suggested, this may very
well be a power manager issue, not a driver issue.

rday
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