[ltp] Screen blanking and X

[Neil Weisenfeld]

I've had the same exact problem and discussed it here, but we haven't
found a solution.

For me it's RedHat 9, kernel 2.4.21rc8 (i.e. final) -ac1 on a T40P

with the radeon-cpbotha-20030405 DRI patches.

at this point I can suspend fine, but as the previous poster wrote, if
the screen blanks for any reason, then I need to switch to a text
console, Fn-F3, and then back to X in order to get the display back. 
Otherwise the backlight comes on, but the display stays black.

I hate this, it's the only really nasty thing left about running
GNU/Linux on this machine.


Regards,
Neil




On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 03:49, Michael Olbrich wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> a bit more details would be great, what kernel version, what xfree
> version, any special patches?
> 
> A friend of mine had the same problem. Updating to xfree 4.3 and a
> resent kernel helped. But I don't know what exactly the problem was.
> 
> Oh, and dri and any kind of suspend don't like each other. Check the
> archieves of this list for more details.
> 
> Michael
> PS: Update your kmail. You have that nasty bug that produces empty lines
> in the header.