Re: Xorg/Radeon spontaneous blanking issues in F11?

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2009/7/29 Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, James Hubbard wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:03 AM, cornel panceac <cpanceac@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>       2009/7/29 Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>       On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 23:32 -0600, Michal Jaegermann
>       wrote:
>       > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 09:08:11PM -0700, Adam
>       Williamson wrote:
>       > I> > On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 05:04 +0200, Dennis J. wrote:
>       > > > > Occasionally the screen gets disabled for no
>       reason at all on my F11
>       > > Literally dozens of people (actually, probably
>       hundreds or thousands...)
>       > > are seeing this. The report is:
>       > >
>       > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501601
>       >
>
> That's extremely unlikely to have been the same problem, since this
> incarnation seems to have cropped up only with f11; many of those
> complaining are people who are known to have run f9, f10 and they
> didn't see the problem there. so that was probably something
> different (and seems to be ATI-specific, anyway).
>
> the blanking occurs on intel too.
>
> It's happening with the nvidia binary driver as well.

 the consensus(?) seems to be a power management issue, not a video
issue.

rday


I agree with that: i had blank screens with nouveau and nvidia binary
driver, but only when my laptop was on battery.
I also get sometimes the centre popup telling that the screen brightness
was adjusted, but nothing changes (with both drivers above).
nvclock seems to adjust brightness successfully though

gg

 

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