any ETA on improved ATI drivers?

[Tom Horsley]

On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 16:46:11 -0400 (EDT)
Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>   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.

That seems to be the least of the problems :-). If you query bugzilla
for the xorg-x11-drv-ati bugs in fedora 11, you get a depressingly
long list.

On the other hand what you describe might be a power manager bug,
not a radeon bug (but who can say for sure).