Xorg/Radeon spontaneous blanking issues in F11?

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 23:35 -0400, Dawid Zamirski wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 05:04 +0200, Dennis J. wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 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. The screen suddenly goes black 
> > and as soon as I press a key it comes back to life again.
> > 
> > The only possible hint I found in the Xorg logfile is this though since 
> > Xorg doesn't put timestamps in front of it's log entries I'm not 100% when 
> > these entries where made and if they have anything to do with this:
> > 
> > Blank CRTC 0 success
> > Disable CRTC 0 success
> > Disable CRTC memreq 0 success
> > Enable CRTC memreq 0 success
> > Enable CRTC 0 success
> > Unblank CRTC 0 success
> > (II) RADEON(0): DIG0 transmitter: Coherent Mode enabled
> > Output DIG0 transmitter setup success
> > 
> > Anyone else seeing this?
> > 
> > Regards,
> >    Dennis
> > 
> 
> Yes, I'm experiencing the same issue (on the integrated AMD/ATI 790GX
> chip)- the screen goes blank even when I'm moving the mouse while web
> browsing or writing an e-mail. It does not happen very often for me
> though, so I didn't bother yet to try to find reproducible steps for a
> bug report.

Literally dozens of people (actually, probably hundreds or thousands...)
are seeing this. The report is:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501601

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