radeon vs radeonhd drivers

[Simon Thum]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> But its not that simple either, cuz when running the radeon driver, I get 
> random screen blanking for 1-10 seconds at a time, and for a change it 
> doesn't seem to be tied to the time of day since its doing it right now and 
> it is 10 pm.
I'm experiencing the exact same thing, but it doesn't happen on every
Xorg session (about every third).

It has been OK with the 6.8.0 version of the radeon driver, if it helps.