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bones

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From: Brisbane

Registered: 2006-03-24

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Screen goes blank at random(possibly solved)

I've been having issues with my screen going blank at random for a couple of seconds. After much hair pulling and cursing, I've think I've solved the problem, at least on my system with intel graphics.

1. Remove xf86-video-intel from system.
2. Install xf86-video-intel-git from aur.   Problem doesn't occur as often.
3. Install kernel 2.6.30 from testing.

Been running for 6 hours so far and no problem as of yet, where as before the screen would have gone blank 4 or 5 times in this period.
Every thing else is working as it should so fingers crossed.

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toffyrn

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Registered: 2008-10-07

Posts: 221

Re: Screen goes blank at random(possibly solved)

This problem exist with both ati and nvidia ( see:  http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=74009 )

So if the problem is fixed i would guess kernel upgrade is the reason...

kgas

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From: Qatar

Registered: 2008-11-08

Posts: 718

Re: Screen goes blank at random(possibly solved)

I can confirm this. Today first time screen went blank for a fraction of second (Ati HD3450 (catalyst from aur)) with GNOME DE.

bones

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From: Brisbane

Registered: 2006-03-24

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Re: Screen goes blank at random(possibly solved)

Since I upgraded it hasn't done this once. Working perfect now.
Don't really know what caused it exactly. The first thing I did was build my own kernel from abs. Still didn't fix it, So downgraded back to the .29 kernel.
Then built xf86-video-intel-git from aur. Was better but not 100%.
Kept that and upgraded back to .30 kernel this time from testing and she's been going great since then.

PS: On gnome also and have the current gnome-power-manager which some seem to have problems with.

Last edited by bones (2009-06-19 22:27:41)

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bones

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From: Brisbane

Registered: 2006-03-24

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Re: Screen goes blank at random(possibly solved)

Not sure if this should be mark as solved. But for me it's been nearly 4 weeks and not a once has the screen gone blank on me. I would say in my case the problem has been solved.

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demonicanima

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Registered: 2008-07-21

Posts: 15

Re: Screen goes blank at random(possibly solved)

I can confirm that this still occurs on both of my computers (intel and nvidia video cards), last time it happened I made a note of the time...

kernel: fuse init (API version 7.11)
is the only message during that minute

edit: the message did not show up this last time....nor did anything else.

Last edited by demonicanima (2009-07-22 19:30:52)