every so often, screen just goes black
Adam Williamson
awilliam at redhat.com
Tue May 19 21:35:57 UTC 2009
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 12:51 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:23:27PM +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > This is an already reported bug of gnome-power-manager, IIRC
>
> Could this be https://bugzilla.redhat.com/498041 rearing its head
> again? I am experiencing this, too, using the build that supposedly
> fixed that bug. I'm going to enable some verbosity to see if I can
> catch it in the act before reopening.
It's not the same bug, because I had that bug, and I don't have it
now. :) But it could somehow be related to that. What timeout do you
guys all have set in gnome-power-preferences for 'Put display to sleep
when...'?
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