every so often, my screen still goes black

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Konstantin Ryabitsev
<icon at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Rob Healey <robhealey1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Greetings:
>>
>> I know that this has been a running problem for a while now, so I have not
>> chimed in.  I am still concerned about it as it is still happening...
>>
>> Does anybody have a clue as to why???
>
> I see it happen on an ATI card I have -- the screen blanks
> periodically for about a second and then comes back. Really
> frustrating when watching DVDs.
>
> What chipset do you have?
>

Mine is intel

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0a)

I think the problem is not with the card drivers but something above it.


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Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux
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