Bug 736853 - With battery power, the GDM screen flickers and finally the machine hangs
Summary: With battery power, the GDM screen flickers and finally the machine hangs
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gdm
Version: rawhide
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-09-08 21:08 UTC by Horst H. von Brand
Modified: 2011-09-09 00:43 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: gdm-3.1.90-1.fc16.x86_64
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-09-09 00:43:05 UTC
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Description Horst H. von Brand 2011-09-08 21:08:09 UTC 
Description of problem:
With just battery power,, this machine (Samsung Netbook N210) the screen flickers and finally the machine hangs (not suspend, etc; CapsLock has no efect on LEDs). Booted into runlevel 3 and then into XFCE, no troubles. With mains power the machine works fine (used it for the TestDay).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gdm-3.1.2-5.fc16.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always when on battery power

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot into runlevel 5
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Actual results:
Screen flickers (dims and brightness goes back to normal each few seconds, finally the screen goes black and the machine hangs, no CapsLock response in LEDs

Expected results:
Be able to login and work...

Additional info:
I noticed this a week or so back for the first time, but thought it was just a fluke (mostly used connected to mains).
Comment 1 Horst H. von Brand 2011-09-09 00:43:05 UTC 
This is embarrasing... the fix was in the next batch of updates.
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