every so often, screen just goes black

Chuck Anderson cra at WPI.EDU
Mon May 18 19:24:55 UTC 2009


On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 09:14:16AM -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:51:58AM -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> > > On 05/17/2009 08:20 AM, 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.
> > 
> > Same here.  I've seen it on both my laptop:
> > 
> > 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 
> > GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
> > 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 
> > Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
> > 
> > and desktop:
> > 
> > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV380 [Radeon 
> > X600 (PCIE)]
> > 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV380 [Radeon X600]
> 
> Like this?
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243022
> 
> I am seeing that at least on one machine with F9 currently installed
> on it.  Not as often like with F7 where it was _really_ annoying.
> So fra my rawhide test box did not suffer from that but maybe I was
> not waiting long enough.

No, not like that at all.  The black outs I've seen are not 
accompanied by log messages.  So much has changed since 2007 that it 
is probably worthwhile opening a new bug.




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