Fedora Users — Re: screen goes blank while typing problem

Mail Lists wrote:

Starting sometime after recent updates (not 100% which/when) - i have a problem where the screen blanks off while i am typing. This is running KDE - on F8 fully updated.

Laptop is IBM T42 with ATI R350 video card.

Onlyi way out - is to switch to virtual console and then back to vc7 -or vice versa. This happens even in run level 3 and seems to be happening with the last 3 revs of kernel. In run level 3 - closing and opening lid brings the text console back to life - but within a few seconds it blanks - regardless of keyboard activity.

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Additional information - it sat all night and woke fine this morning. However, after using it a few minutes the screen gooes dark.

I can see the windows behind very faintly (no backlight maybe?) and they are responding to the keyboard - just the screen wont gte bright - unless i toggle the VC's and then it shuts down rapidly after that making it impossible to use. I can ssh to laptop and all appears to be well - no log messages - other than the following which occur if i manage to get it back bright:

Apr 13 01:33:25 bongos acpid: client connected from 2659[0:0]
Apr 13 01:33:26 bongos kernel: agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
Apr 13 01:33:26 bongos kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
Apr 13 01:33:26 bongos kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
Apr 13 01:33:26 bongos kernel: [drm] Loading R300 Microcode

Thanks for any thoughts.