Blanked screen never returns
Amichai Rotman
amichai at iglu.org.il
Wed Nov 2 08:04:59 UTC 2016
It seems to be a power management issue with the Graphics Adapter.
Searching for the model of the laptop, I found it has an nVidia chip.
Did you installed the proprietary drivers? Try installing the latest
available in the 'Additional Drivers' tab in Software Sources.
Good Luck!
Amichai
בתאריך יום ד׳, 2 בנוב׳ 2016 ב-8:47 מאת MR <mrzenwiz at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 7:26 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> No luck today. I'll post back when I can replicate.
>
>
> I tried this again and was able to open a console (I used console 1).
>
> The only thing I found so far that worked was to restart the lightdm
> driver, which of course closed all my windows and reset the login to logged
> out.
>
> I was hoping to find something would resurrect the screen without losing
> all the windows. this time it wasn't too bad, as I did the experiment when
> the system had just come up from an update reboot.
>
> It still bothers me that xscreensaver, which appears to be the default
> screensaver for 16.04 (?), still can't blank and restore the screen anymore.
>
> Still open to further input, and thanks for all the postings so far.
>
> MR
>
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