Random screen blanking -- a clue

[Richard Shaw]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Sam Varshavchik<mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:
> Richard Shaw writes:
>
>> On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Bret<bret381 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 07/11/2009 05:37 PM, Mail Lists wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 07/11/2009 05:25 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Another thing I notice: I have the screen set to dim on idle.
>>>>> Sometimes, the screen dims even when I am typing and does not restore
>>>>> full brightness until I turn the brightness up manually.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   I see the same problem ...
>>>>
>>> having the same problem
>>
>> Just to gather more data, would everyone reply with the version and
>> source they are using for the nvidia drivers? I want to see if we can
>> figure out which package is the culprit...
>
> I am using the nouveau driver,
> xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.12-40.20090528git0c17b87.fc11.i586

Although that's only one datapoint, it seems that the problem is with
a fedora package and not with the proprietary nvidia drivers, which is
some way is a relief. I guess this leaves a kernel driver or Xorg dpms
bug as the culprit?

Thanks,
Richard