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 Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 12:34 pm Post subject: FGLRX & power mgmt: screen turned off forever when idle |
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Hi.
My new laptop has an ATI Radeon HD 3670. I can only use FGLRX :'( since open source drivers do not play well with either 2D or multiple monitors. I'm hence using ati-drivers-8.593 from portage. The biggest problem with FGLRX is that when I leave my computer idle too long, the screen turns off but doesn't resume after I move the mouse or press a key -- I must power off my laptop with the power button; fortunately it's still responding. I've had to turn off power management in Screen saving properties (i.e. xscreensaver-demo).
Is there a fix or something? An option to add to xorg.conf?
Thanks for any hint//suggestion.
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VinzC
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I've upgraded. Now it's even worse: the screen turns black when X starts, the laptop doesn't respond but to the power off button! 
Heck! Won't ever buy that crap anymore!...
EDIT: And now the worst of the worse! I tried to downgrade back to the latest version in portage. Now X crashes upon startup. Using the open source drivers is painfully slow when dragging windows or with scrolling in Firefox (e.g. radeonhd). Dual screen doesn't work. Working with xf86-video-ati gives better results but dual screen totally blurs my main laptop's screen, making it unusable. Anyways poor or no 2D acceleration. 3D acceleration inexistent.
Feeling desperate. Again.
<sighs/>
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