Solved: Display blanks out and does not turn on untill reboot.

Hardware:
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Intel i7 prossesor (x86)
Asus motherboard with UEIF
ATI radeon 5770 graphics
Partitioneng:
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sda: windows file system partitions
sdb1: /boot (FAT32) - GRUB UIEF
sdb2: / (ext4)
sdc: windows bootloader and os
Software:
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Regular instal acording to Beginers guid and ATI drivers page.
Graphics drivers are the big free ATI driver package.
Problem.
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After a random amount of time, usialy a fiew minutes after the computer starts, the display turns of.
This happens in the BIOS menu, the live arch tty, arch tty and gnome.
This does not happen if i boot into windows or a Ubutu live cd.
When the display blanks out in a tty i am still able to interact with it,  eg: if i blindly type 'reboot[enter]' the stystem reboots, ore 'man[space]ls[up][up]' computer peeps.
When the display blanks out in Gnome the keyboard gets disabled aswell.
I am able to ssh into the computer if it blanks out while i am runnig arch.
When the computer blanks out nothing but a hardware shutdown and restart seams to turn on the dispaly again. doing a reboot comand (while blanked out) thorugh ssh causes the computer to reboot but the display is still disabled after the reboot.
Atempted fix
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attempted to run in bash:
  xset s off
  xset -dpms
no aperent efect.
Coment
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It might be some motherbord fiture that blanks out the screen, what is curious though is thet Windows and Ubuntu never blankout, not even temporarely. So there must be somthing that can be done from the OS side.
Another weird thing is that I would exect it to blank out when the user input is inactive if it was a pawer saving fiture, but it usialy blanks out while i am typing.
I am grateful for all the help I can get.
Last edited by pintjuk (2013-12-23 18:42:14)

okej, found something interesting.
this is from a more resent blanking
not sure what it meens though, is it bugs in the video drivers?.
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: radeon 0000:01:00.0: GPU lockup CP stall for more than 10000msec
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: radeon 0000:01:00.0: GPU lockup (waiting for 0x0000000000002633 last fence id 0x0000000000002632)
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: [drm] Disabling audio 0 support
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc9040bcbcffc
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: IP: [<ffffffffa0880b18>] radeon_ring_backup+0xc8/0x160 [radeon]
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: PGD 22680f067 PUD 0
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: Modules linked in: nls_utf8 isofs fuse btusb iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_codec_realtek x86_pkg_temp_thermal intel_powerclamp co
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: ehci_pci xhci_hcd ehci_hcd firewire_ohci scsi_mod firewire_core crc_itu_t usbcore usb_common
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: CPU: 2 PID: 297 Comm: Xorg Not tainted 3.12.5-1-ARCH #1
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: Hardware name: System manufacturer System Product Name/P8Z68 DELUXE, BIOS 3603 11/09/2012
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: task: ffff88000c394e30 ti: ffff88000c118000 task.ti: ffff88000c118000
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa0880b18>] [<ffffffffa0880b18>] radeon_ring_backup+0xc8/0x160 [radeon]
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: RSP: 0018:ffff88000c119ca0 EFLAGS: 00010246
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: RAX: ffff880211d00000 RBX: ffff88022185d2d0 RCX: 0000000000000000
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: RDX: ffffc9000bcbd000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffc9040bcbcffc
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: RBP: ffff88000c119cd0 R08: 0000000000031e04 R09: 0000000000000006
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: R10: 0000000000000040 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 00000000ffffffff
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: R13: ffff88022185d2a0 R14: 000000000000c781 R15: ffff88000c119d18
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: FS: 00007f2dca10b880(0000) GS:ffff88022f280000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: CR2: ffffc9040bcbcffc CR3: 000000000c152000 CR4: 00000000000407e0
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: Stack:
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: ffff88000c119cb8 ffff88022185c000 ffff88022185d2d0 0000000000000000
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: 0000000000000000 ffff88000c119d18 ffff88000c119d70 ffffffffa08513d7
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: ffff88022185d2d0 000000010c119cf8 ffff88022185ca38 ffff88022185c018
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: Call Trace:
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: [<ffffffffa08513d7>] radeon_gpu_reset+0xa7/0x240 [radeon]
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: [<ffffffff814f221d>] ? ww_mutex_unlock+0x3d/0xa0
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: [<ffffffffa087ea5e>] radeon_gem_handle_lockup.part.5+0xe/0x20 [radeon]
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: [<ffffffffa087f528>] radeon_gem_wait_idle_ioctl+0x98/0xf0 [radeon]
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: [<ffffffffa05dcc62>] drm_ioctl+0x502/0x630 [drm]
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: [<ffffffff810725e2>] ? __set_task_blocked+0x32/0x70
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: [<ffffffff81074e2c>] ? signal_delivered+0x5c/0x80
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: [<ffffffff81074e8c>] ? signal_setup_done+0x3c/0x60
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: [<ffffffff8101462a>] ? do_signal+0x19a/0x940
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: [<ffffffff8101f7a7>] ? __restore_xstate_sig+0x87/0x640
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: [<ffffffff811b7275>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x2e5/0x4d0
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: [<ffffffff811b74e1>] SyS_ioctl+0x81/0xa0
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: [<ffffffff814fcfed>] system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: Code: 48 85 c0 49 89 07 74 7b 41 8d 56 ff 31 c9 4c 8d 04 95 04 00 00 00 eb 06 0f 1f 00 49 8b 07 48 8b 53 08 41 8d 74 24 01 4a 8d 3c a2 <8b> 3f 89 3c 08 23
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: RIP [<ffffffffa0880b18>] radeon_ring_backup+0xc8/0x160 [radeon]
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: RSP <ffff88000c119ca0>
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: CR2: ffffc9040bcbcffc
dec 23 16:49:26 localhost kernel: ---[ end trace 1a11fa07f6928c93 ]---
Last edited by pintjuk (2013-12-23 15:59:03)

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