Re: Intermittent blank screen – Stretch

[Mike <m99@kaikohe.net>]

Yes, it is a smart tv.


On 02/06/18 10:56, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> On 05/31/2018 04:27 PM, Mike wrote:
> > I have just installed Stretch and and randomly getting a 2 second (or 
> > so) blank screen. I can go for quite some time without it happening, 
> > or it can happen several times over a few minutes. I can dual boot 
> > with Jessie and do not have the problem with that – so I think I can 
> > rule out a hardware issue.
> >
> > I have an Nvidia GTX1050 video card, HDMI output to a Samsung 49" TV, 
> > 4K video. There is no other type of input into the TV for me to be 
> > able to test.
> >
> > Here is what I have done
> > 1. Installed Stretch (amd64) with XFCE
> > 2. apt-get install firmware-linux nvidia-driver nvidia-settings 
> > nvidia-xconfig
> > 3. run nvidia-xconfig
> > 4. turned off screen blanking in power settings
> >
> > I am quite happy to spend time troubleshooting, but don’t really know 
> > where to start. The blanking happens too quickly for me to be able to 
> > do anything at the time.
> >
> > Does anyone have any thoughts?
>
>
> I see the same thing on my smart-tv, while watching movies from my 
> laptop.
>
> If you have a smart-tv then you have a tv with a computer in it and 
> it's try to communicate with your computer and your computer is trying 
> to communicate with your tv, not a good thing.  Both Wheezy and Jessie 
> with no-systemd do not have this behavior. Maybe the problem can be 
> fixed, maybe.
>
> Cheers,