On Wednesday 08 July 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: >> | From: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> | >> | i ask since a problem i was having with the radeon driver during the >> | test phase -- screen suddenly going dark, literally right in the >> | middle of keystrokes -- is coming back and seems to be getting more >> | frequent. never caused any breakage, just disconcerting. >> >> Is this https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501601 ? >> I found this from >> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F11_bugs#Display_goes_blank_briefly. >>2C_apparently_at_random > > sort of, but most of the reports i remember didn't blank the screen >"for good", only briefly until you supplied some user input. no harm, >just annoying. > >rday Here, it blanks regardless of user input, damned annoying when I have to ctl- alt-bksp out of x and reboot, several times a week. A restart of x will not fix it once it starts. The tty terminals are fine. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> I'm using my X-RAY VISION to obtain a rare glimpse of the INNER WORKINGS of this POTATO!! -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines