Bug#792778: nouveau: screen sometimes remains blank after "xset dpms force off"

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Sun, May 09, 2021 at 08:38:13AM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Hi Vincent,
> 
> On Sun, May 09, 2021 at 07:49:55AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2021-05-08 21:30:11 +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> > > So this was more recent. I guess still present as well on a recent
> > > kernel?
> > 
> > I don't know, as nouveau became completely unusable for me and
> > I'm currently using the NVIDIA driver:
> > 
> >   https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-nouveau/-/issues/534
> > 
> > > Did you got a chance to report it upstream and got some feedback?
> > 
> > No, but in general, there is no useful feedback from upstream
> > (no attempt to fix bugs).
> 
> Thanks for reporting back as well on this one. So I'm still a bit lost
> what to do here and in similar cases.

I think in meanwhile we should close this bug downstream.

If it's still reproducible it has be handled upstream first before a
fix can flow down back to us in Debian.

sorry we could not be of more help over all the years.

Regards,
Salvatore