#8490 NORM Not Tri: screen pulses coming out of standby

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#8490: screen pulses coming out of standby
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 Reporter:  skierpage            |         Owner:  cjb          
     Type:  defect               |        Status:  new          
 Priority:  normal               |     Milestone:  Not Triaged  
Component:  power manager (OHM)  |       Version:  not specified
 Keywords:                       |   Next_action:  never set    
 Verified:  0                    |     Blockedby:               
 Blocking:                       |  
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 (adapted from e-mail "XO screen pulses after "standby", OOM afterwards"
 sent to devel list)

 Twice with 8.2-759 my G1G1 machine has had the screen flash on and off
 coming out of a "standby" (screen off) state.  The second time seemed a
 memory pressure state that didn't ease until I rebooted.

 The pulsings happened after I left my XO disconnected from power and it
 went dead, so much so that I had to do a
 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_Full_Reset.  But the laptop was running fine
 before the screen went off.  Both times:

 * Screen is off, but IIRC the green power light is on.

 * I press the power on button, nothing happens.  So press it some more,
 also press some random keyboard keys.

 * Then the screen flashes on for less than a second, goes blank for about
 40 seconds, flashes on, goes blank for 40 seconds...  The first  time the
 screen flashed at least 10 times before staying on, this time it flashed
 at least three times.

 Both times it feels as if the laptop is so sluggish that it's queued up my
 power button presses.

 The second time the laptop seems extremely slow afterwards.  I ran various
 memory commands as I killed activities, restarted X and sugar, then
 rebooted, see http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Skierpage/out-of-memory

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8490>
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