any ETA on improved ATI drivers?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:

> | From: 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.
>
> Is this https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501601 ?
> I found this from
>   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F11_bugs#Display_goes_blank_briefly.2C_apparently_at_random

  sort of, but most of the reports i remember didn't blank the screen
"for good", only briefly until you supplied some user input.  no harm,
just annoying.

rday
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