any ETA on improved ATI drivers?
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Wed Jul 8 06:33:34 UTC 2009
On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 July 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >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
>
> Here, it blanks regardless of user input, damned annoying when I
> have to ctl- alt-bksp out of x and reboot, several times a week. A
> restart of x will not fix it once it starts. The tty terminals are
> fine.
this goes back to fedora 11 preview, when it started happening for
me and, after i whined about it, a few other people piped up and said
it was happening to them as well. offhand, i don't recall anyone else
claiming that it was fatal like in your case -- only annoying. but
that's just working from memory.
i originally thought it was the radeon driver since that was having
other issues, but others since then seem convinced it's the power
manager, and i'm inclined to agree.
rday
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