Random screen blanking -- a clue

[Shannon McMackin]

On 07/11/2009 10:08 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 11 July 2009, Richard Shaw wrote:
>> 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
>
> If ya wanna, toss in that I'm running the radeonhd driver.  They can't all be
> bad, so maybe the dpms or something in the kernel is to blame after all.
>
I'm using an Intel driver...