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Bug#169308: xserver-xfree86: LCD blanks and won't unblank -> kernel bug?



On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 10:09:17PM -0500, Jerry Quinn wrote:
> Chris Halls writes:
>  > I read this in Kernel Traffic #192.  Could this be your problem?
> 
>  > Marcelo Tosatti announced 2.4.20-rc1 and included the BitKeeper summary. He
>  > said, "Several networking fixes, net drivers fixes, devfs root boot option
>  > fixed, and more." Carl-Daniel Hailfinger reported that his system would come
>  > back up with a blank screen after a hardware suspend and resume. Switching
>  > to another console and back again would fix it. He traced the problem to
>  > 2.4.18-pre7, in the power management code; and Marcelo asked if he'd
>  > actually reverted the part of the code he'd identified. Carl tried this and
>  > found that his initial assessment was wrong. Instead, he traced the problem
>  > all the way back to some framebuffer changes in 2.4.18-pre1. He posted a
> 
> I don't think so.  The problem below occurs as a result of fbdev
> suspending and shows up after resume.  My problem is when the screen
> blanks after being idle for a while, and doing suspend/resume fixes
> it.  Also, I don't use fbdev, because I don't get a working display at
> all with it.
> 
> That said, I can pull down this kernel and give it a try.

Did this have any effect on the problem?

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