On Sat, 30 May 2009, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Konstantin Ryabitsev
<icon(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Rob Healey <robhealey1(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> Greetings:
>>
>> I know that this has been a running problem for a while now, so I have not
>> chimed in. I am still concerned about it as it is still happening...
>>
>> Does anybody have a clue as to why???
>
> I see it happen on an ATI card I have -- the screen blanks
> periodically for about a second and then comes back. Really
> frustrating when watching DVDs.
>
> What chipset do you have?
>
Mine is intel
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0a)
I think the problem is not with the card drivers but something above it.
For now, the gnome-power-manager is blamed for this. I have Radeon 9200
and also experienced this in last two days. I did not tried the new
g-p-m posted here in the list yet.
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