Xorg/Radeon spontaneous blanking issues in F11?

[Guido Grazioli]

2009/7/29 Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>

> On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, James Hubbard wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:03 AM, cornel panceac <cpanceac at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >       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:
> >       > I> > 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
> >       > > Literally dozens of people (actually, probably
> >       hundreds or thousands...)
> >       > > are seeing this. The report is:
> >       > >
> >       > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501601
> >       >
> >
> > 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).
> >
> > the blanking occurs on intel too.
> >
> > It's happening with the nvidia binary driver as well.
>
>   the consensus(?) seems to be a power management issue, not a video
> issue.
>
> rday



I agree with that: i had blank screens with nouveau and nvidia binary
driver, but only when my laptop was on battery.
I also get sometimes the centre popup telling that the screen brightness
was adjusted, but nothing changes (with both drivers above).
nvclock seems to adjust brightness successfully though

gg



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