every so often, screen just goes black

[Lawrence E. Graves]

On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 12:50 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 11:28 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 17:32 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > 
> > > It happens!  I see it in both GNOME and KDE environments.  I had it to
> > > never and it happens as soon as I type something in internet.   Moving
> > > the mouse or a touching a key gets me back.  It is strange but it does
> > > happen.  I guess it is not a big deal, but others may have other
> > > opinions.
> > 
> > Update here (I just picked a random mail from the thread to reply to):
> > 
> > http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2009/05/29/gnome-power-manager-unstableness/
> > 
> > I've asked Richard, in Paul's bug -
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501601 - if he could
> > possibly do a scratch build of the latest git code to aid testing. If
> > this shows up I'll reply to this thread again. Otherwise, anyone
> > adventurous enough to build the latest git themselves in order to test
> > could try that.
> 
> OK, I decided not to be a lazy ass and do the builds for you guys
> myself. Here's the packages:
> 
> http://adamwill.fedorapeople.org/gnome-power-manager/gnome-power-manager-2.27.1-0.4.20090529git.fc11.i586.rpm (i586)
> http://adamwill.fedorapeople.org/gnome-power-manager/gnome-power-manager-2.27.1-0.4.20090529git.fc11.x86_64.rpm (x86-64)
> http://adamwill.fedorapeople.org/gnome-power-manager/gnome-power-manager-2.27.1-0.4.20090529git.fc11.src.rpm (src.rpm, just to be a good citizen)
> 
> If you're suffering this issue, please grab the appropriate build for
> your system, give it a try, and let us know if it works. thanks!
> -- 
> Adam Williamson
> Fedora QA Community Monkey
> IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
> http://www.happyassassin.net
> 
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Thank you.- 
Lawrence E. Graves <lgraves at risingstarmbc.com>