On Tue, 19 May 2009, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 12:51 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote: > > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:23:27PM +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote: > > > On 05/17/2009 02:20 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > >> on my (currently up to date) f11 beta system, every so often while > > >> i'm in gnome, the screen goes black. no, it's not the screensaver > > >> kicking in after a certain idle period. i might have just typed > > >> something and, two seconds later, blackness. move the mouse, i get my > > >> display back. no harm, just weird. > > >> > > >> i'm currently running the latest radeon driver, with "XAA" in > > >> xorg.conf. it's not fatal, obviously, just unusual -- i've never had > > >> that behaviour in previous versions of fedora. > > > > > > This is an already reported bug of gnome-power-manager, IIRC > > > > Could this be https://bugzilla.redhat.com/498041 rearing its head > > again? I am experiencing this, too, using the build that > > supposedly fixed that bug. I'm going to enable some verbosity to > > see if I can catch it in the act before reopening. > > It's not the same bug, because I had that bug, and I don't have it > now. :) But it could somehow be related to that. What timeout do you > guys all have set in gnome-power-preferences for 'Put display to > sleep when...'? for the display, mine's set for 30 minutes but it's *absolutely* not a function of that time value since, as others have mentioned, the screen can go black totally arbitrarily, like when i'm literally in the middle of typing something. can i assume that's pretty much what's happening to some of the others who have confirmed this? 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-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
