Blanked screen never returns
NoOp
glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Tue Nov 1 16:18:34 UTC 2016
On 11/1/2016 7:47 AM, MR wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 7:11 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com
> <mailto:lproven at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> On 1 November 2016 at 01:36, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com
> <mailto: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?
>
> Yes. Fat fingers.
>
>
> > 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.
>
> I tried that last night, but all I got was some system level output
> (which I did not record), as if the system were restarting, but it never
> finished and the screen went blank again.
>
> (Thanks, too, to Joel.)
>
>
>
I experienced this as well just the other day when I locked the screen
from the keyboard. I could not get to a terminal, but it left a terminal
window open on the screen. I'll see if I can reproduce later today.
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