Bug#574169: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: dims display after some days of uptime

[Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez <rodrivg@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> wrote:

Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon
> Version: 1:6.12.4-2local1
> Severity: normal
>
> After the laptop spends some days on, and the screensaver activated
> and locked the screen several times, the display goes dark,
> with no apparent solution.
> Restarting server or starting a new session as another user provides
> a normal display, e.g. a dark display at CTRL-ALT-F7 and a normal
> display at CTRL-ALT-F8.
> The screen is dark, but not completely dark, and I am able to unlock
> the screen and see the desktop, but much darker than normal.
> The only thing that seems at normal bright is the mouse pointer.
>
> My local version is the same as 1:6.12.4-2 but with the patch in:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=561942
>

This patch is in 1:6.12.4-3. And there's even 6.12.5 in testing and
6.12.6 in unstable now. Please test them. If they don't help, please try
6.12.192 from experimental, and maybe with KMS froma recent kernel too.

Brice

I think the patch I mentioned has nothing to do with the bug I reported, I only mentioned it because I patched the package meanwhile the patch was not available in testing. And the patch works (for its bug).

Soon I will upgrade to 6.12.5 or later.

The bug I reported was about the screen that darks or even gets completely black (and unusable) after some days of uptime. It is hard to reproduce because it may spend several days before it appears. When I upgrade the radeon driver I will look whether this behaviour continues.

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Rodrigo