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

[Michel Dänzer]

On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 22:03 +0100, 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.

Can you fix the darkness e.g. with xgamma?


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