Problem with an ATI x2900 video adapter

[Warren Block]

On Sun, 10 Apr 2011, Michael D. Norwick wrote:
> On 04/10/11 06:44, Warren Block wrote:
>> 
>> Sounds like the video card went into power save.  Pressing a shift key 
>> might have brought it back.
>> 
>>> I would like to know if anyone else has experienced this or, if a PR is 
>>> necessary against the Xorg radeon driver.
>> 
>> It's not clear whether you were running in the console or X.  If X wasn't 
>> even installed yet, the radeon driver could not have been at fault.
>
> Yes, Xorg was running with gdm and gnome2.  I was building packages from 
> ports in a gterm.
> No, no combination of Shift-Fn or <Meta-key>-Fn did anything.  The keyboard 
> was active as the Caps-Lock and Num-Lock lights worked.
> The monitor power save features are disabled.

Maybe xscreensaver?  Whatever's causing it, it's not a common problem.

> I wonder if the Linux Catalyst Control Center app. from ATI would work under 
> VirtualBox-OSE?

No, the hardware is virtualized to the VM.