On Wednesday 08 July 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >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_brief >> >>ly. 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 TBT, I can't tell if it is shutting down the backlight or not here. This Samsung SynchMaster 205bw has a quite wide contrast ratio, and I usually have enough overhead lights on that I couldn't tell the difference. Next time it happens, I'll shut them off & see if I can tell if the backlight is also being killed. I can run this monitor on either cable style, and thought for a bit that maybe it was related to that, but I spent an hour switching things around a couple of months ago and found it was effecting both the analog and the digital outputs on this card, an HD2400 Pro. rv610 chipset. >-- > > > >======================================================================== >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 >======================================================================== -- 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> Software uses US measurements, but the OS is in metric... -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
