Screen would not stay blank

[Michel Salim]

On 10/19/06, Adam Jackson <ajackson at redhat.com> wrote:
> Michel Salim wrote:
> > This probably has been happening for some time, but I just noticed
> > over the last couple of weeks that my laptop's screen never turns
> > itself off, regardless of Power Manager preferences.
> >
> > So I ran a script that calls 'xset dpms force off' every 10 seconds.
> > And the result is disturbing: whether the screensaver is on or not (I
> > tried setting it to both Fedora Bubbles and Blank), the screen would
> > be on again within a few (< 10) seconds, without fail.
> >
> > This is on x86_64 with a shared-memory ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M, radeon
> > driver from X.org. This is a driver bug, I take it?
>
> Already filed:
>
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198307
>
> And no, actually not a driver bug.
>
Uh, it's worse than I thought. Thanks, Cc:ing that bug report.


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