every so often, screen just goes black

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Fri, 5/29/09, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:

> From: Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: every so often, screen just goes black
> To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Antonio Olivares" <olivares14031 at yahoo.com>
> Date: Friday, May 29, 2009, 12:50 PM
> On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 11:28 -0700,
> Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 17:32 -0700, Antonio Olivares
> wrote:
> > 
> > > It happens!  I see it in both GNOME and KDE
> environments.  I had it to
> > > never and it happens as soon as I type something
> in internet.   Moving
> > > the mouse or a touching a key gets me back. 
> It is strange but it does
> > > happen.  I guess it is not a big deal, but
> others may have other
> > > opinions.
> > 
> > Update here (I just picked a random mail from the
> thread to reply to):
> > 
> > http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2009/05/29/gnome-power-manager-unstableness/
> > 
> > I've asked Richard, in Paul's bug -
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=501601 - if
> he could
> > possibly do a scratch build of the latest git code to
> aid testing. If
> > this shows up I'll reply to this thread again.
> Otherwise, anyone
> > adventurous enough to build the latest git themselves
> in order to test
> > could try that.
> 
> OK, I decided not to be a lazy ass and do the builds for
> you guys
> myself. Here's the packages:
> 
> http://adamwill.fedorapeople.org/gnome-power-manager/gnome-power-manager-2.27.1-0.4.20090529git.fc11.i586.rpm
> (i586)
> http://adamwill.fedorapeople.org/gnome-power-manager/gnome-power-manager-2.27.1-0.4.20090529git.fc11.x86_64.rpm
> (x86-64)
> http://adamwill.fedorapeople.org/gnome-power-manager/gnome-power-manager-2.27.1-0.4.20090529git.fc11.src.rpm
> (src.rpm, just to be a good citizen)
> 
> If you're suffering this issue, please grab the appropriate
> build for
> your system, give it a try, and let us know if it works.
> thanks!
> -- 
> Adam Williamson
> Fedora QA Community Monkey
> IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT
> org
> http://www.happyassassin.net
> 
> 

I have installed it :)

[olivares at localhost ~]$ cd Documents/
[olivares at localhost Documents]$ ls *.rpm
gnome-power-manager-2.27.1-0.4.20090529git.fc11.i586.rpm
[olivares at localhost Documents]$ su -
Password: 
[root at localhost ~]# cd /home/olivares/Documents/
[root at localhost Documents]# rpm -Uvh gnome-power-manager-2.27.1-0.4.20090529git.fc11.i586.rpm 
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:gnome-power-manager    ########################################### [100%]

Will let you and others on list how it works out.  At least on one machine, the others have been retired school is over till next year :)

Regards,

Antonio