every so often, screen just goes black

[Harald Hoyer]

On 05/17/2009 02:20 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>    on my (currently up to date) f11 beta system, every so often while
> i'm in gnome, the screen goes black.  no, it's not the screensaver
> kicking in after a certain idle period.  i might have just typed
> something and, two seconds later, blackness.  move the mouse, i get my
> display back.  no harm, just weird.
>
>   i'm currently running the latest radeon driver, with "XAA" in
> xorg.conf.  it's not fatal, obviously, just unusual -- i've never had
> that behaviour in previous versions of fedora.
>
> rday
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This is an already reported bug of gnome-power-manager, IIRC