On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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. this goes back to fedora 11 preview, when it started happening for me and, after i whined about it, a few other people piped up and said it was happening to them as well. offhand, i don't recall anyone else claiming that it was fatal like in your case -- only annoying. but that's just working from memory. i originally thought it was the radeon driver since that was having other issues, but others since then seem convinced it's the power manager, and i'm inclined to agree. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/rpjday Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ======================================================================== -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines