every so often, screen just goes black

[Rodd Clarkson]

On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 17:24 +0200, Axel wrote:
> Le 18/05/2009 16:51, Chuck Anderson a écrit :
> > 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 happens 2 or 3 times a day, with a nvidia gpu, using proprietary 
> driver and a Hyundai W220D (plugged on the DVI connector) monitor.

I'm seeing the same thing on a Dell Inspiron 9300 running the nvidia
driver.  It might happen once a day.

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV41.8 [GeForce Go
6800] (rev a2)

Screen goes blank (like the screensaver is turning on, but I'm typing at
the time) and then comes back up again.

Weird!


R.