Bug#606763: linux-image-2.6.37-rc5-686: Screen stays blank on EeePC 701 after xscreensaver turned screen off
Hi,
Axel Beckert wrote:
> I'm running xscreensaver (5.11-1+b1) and it is configured to set the
> display to standby after 10 Minutes and to suspend after 20
> minutes. After approximately 10-20 minutes (i.e. after switching to
> standby mode or switching to suspend mode -- will debiug it further),
> the screen was blank and without backlight as expected, but neither
> moving the mouse nor hitting a key on the keyboard (not even switching
> to a virtual console with Ctrl-Alt-F1) changed something and it stayed
> dark.
>
> But pressing the EeePC's power button cleanly shuts down the computer,
> so the system does not hang, just the screen doesn't come back to live
> until I power cycle it (and then the first thing I see again are BIOS
> messages). Since I'm currently not at home, I don't have a second
> machine to ssh into the EeePC and look what's going on in detail.
In the meanwhile I tried to login via ssh remotely in that state.
Works fine, but also "chvt 1" or restarting or killing X didn't change
anything.
Pressing Fn-F1 (Sleep in general, Suspend-to-RAM in my case) and then
the power button to wakeup to EeePC again reactivates the screen and
can be seen as workaround. It's nevertheless quite annoying, so I'm
back on the last 2.6.36 from experimental.
Regards, Axel
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