every so often, my screen still goes black

[Adam Pribyl]

On Sat, 30 May 2009, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

> 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.

For now, the gnome-power-manager is blamed for this. I have Radeon 9200 
and also experienced this in last two days. I did not tried the new 
g-p-m posted here in the list yet.

> -- 
> Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux

Adam Pribyl