Blanked screen never returns

Tue Nov 1 14:11:57 UTC 2016

On 1 November 2016 at 01:36, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Since I upgraded my home desktop to Xubuntu 16.04, and installed 16.40
> on my laptop,

You mean 16.04 for both, yes?

> I have noticed that when the screen is blanked (or
> powered down), it never comes back.  Rebooting resolves this (the
> windows solution - ugh).

What happens if you switch to a text console and back?

Ctrl+Alt+F1, then Alt-F7.

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