Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 443292
Screen goes blank in random intervals
Last modified: 2018-04-11 10:46:12 EDT
Description of problem: While testing Fedora 9 preview-release live CD, the screen goes blank occasionally for few seconds. Each time everything resumes normally. No errors/warnings/messages is printed to logs. At least I didn't see any. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-drv-nv-2.1.8-1.fc9.i386 How reproducible: It happens randomly (or at least it seems so). The interval is anything from 5mins to 30mins. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot Fedora 9 preview release live CD 2. Use desktop normally (browse bugzilla, look system logs) 3. Actual results: The monitor goes blank for few seconds every now and then, no messages/warnings is printed to logs. Expected results: The monitor is on while the user is active. Additional info: When installing fedora 8, the graphics card was not supported with NV or Noveau drivers. when using the NVidia binary driver, there is no problems with screen blanking.
Created attachment 303048 [details] Xorg log file
Are you sure the blank is more than a second?
No, not sure. I would estimate that it's closer to 1 sec.
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
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