Yup, sync_to_vblank seems to work for me, too! Thanks, TreviƱo and
Sean!
-peter
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Title:
Natty Screensaver freezes s
Yes, I'm pretty sure I was using Flash, but I haven't experienced any
problems while watching videos, it's just that it seems like the hang
only happens sometime after I had viewed a video in full-screen mode.
FWIW, I'm running 2.6.38-8-generic-pae i386, though my processor is an
i5 (and therefore
Well, looks like the power manager tweak didn't eliminate it after all.
However, I'm now starting to suspect full-screen video as a contributing
factor, as my most recent "freeze" happened only after I watched a full-
screen video for the first time since the power-manager tweak, and I had
had inkl
I was experiencing this problem (screen freezes except mouse pointer,
but can still Ctrl-Alt-F1 to a terminal) regularly until a few days ago
when I went into power manager and set "Put display to sleep when
inactive for:" to Never (for both AC and battery). Since then, I have
not had the problem