every so often, screen just goes black
Paul W. Frields
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Tue May 19 16:51:27 UTC 2009
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.
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