Xorg/Radeon spontaneous blanking issues in F11?

cornel panceac cpanceac at gmail.com
Wed Jul 29 08:03:17 UTC 2009


2009/7/29 Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>

> On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 23:32 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 09:08:11PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 05:04 +0200, Dennis J. wrote:
> > > > > Occasionally the screen gets disabled for no reason at all on my
> F11
> > > > > system. This occurs even with the screensaver completely disabled
> and even
> > > > > after I typed something 5 seconds before.
> >
> > It can go off while you are typing and it takes some seconds to come
> > back.  Quite annoying.
> >
> > > > > Anyone else seeing this?
> >
> > >
> > > Literally dozens of people (actually, probably hundreds or
> thousands...)
> > > are seeing this. The report is:
> > >
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501601
> >
> > Here is an older one:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=243022
> > It got CLOSED WONTFIX.
>
> That's extremely unlikely to have been the same problem, since this
> incarnation seems to have cropped up only with f11; many of those
> complaining are people who are known to have run f9, f10 and they didn't
> see the problem there. so that was probably something different (and
> seems to be ATI-specific, anyway).
>
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the blanking occurs on intel too.

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