[Mageia-dev] Having problem with the monitor

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 22 August 2012 08:13, Kira <elegant.pegasus at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I use gnome (thus gdm), and dpms is off on my system as well. and I have
>>> a similar problem from time to time (almost every day).
>>> I found a workaround by chance : if I click the mouse several times when
>>> this happens, then the screen turns on after a few seconds, and everything
>>> is still running.  Otherwise I have to reboot to get my display back.
>>> I also use the ati driver and not fglrx, and leave my system on most of
>>> the time.
>>> So maybe try this workaround ?
>>>
>> I had tried it before, but it just died.....
>
> I had tried 4 different kinds of flavor kernels(mga/tmb X desktop/Server)
>
> None of them work! Anyone please help me?

telling what is your graphic card, if you're using proprietary driver or not,
providin /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old ... could help