every so often, screen just goes black

[Robert L Cochran]

I have installed the x86_64 version:

[rlc at deafeng3 ~]$ rpm -q gnome-power-manager
gnome-power-manager-2.27.1-0.4.20090529git.fc11.x86_64


Bob


On 05/29/2009 03:50 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 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!
>