Bug#463633: After coming from DPMS I get a black screen with working mouse pointer

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 10:11:00PM +0100, Brice Goglin wrote:
> Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote:
> > Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel
> > Version: 2:2.2.0-1
> > Severity: important
> >
> > The server works ok, but if I let it go into DPMS mode, when coming back I
> > get a black screen, only the mouse pointer is shown then, I can move it and
> > it is perfectly drawn, but the whole screen remains black. I can get the
> > screen back to normal by going to a text VT and coming back to the X VT.
> >
> > The machine needs Option "VBERestore" "true" to get the screen restored
> > after getting back from a text VT, this has been like that since the XFree 4
> > era and I believe that this option is the one that is allowing me to restore
> > the screen when it becomes black.
> >
> > This was not happening before with the xserver-xorg-video-i810 driver, only
> > happens with the new xserver-xorg-video-intel.
> >   
> 
> Can you try a recent snapshot of the upstream git repository? I think
> some changes related to this problem have been committed since 2.2.0 was
> released. There's a howto at http://bgoglin.livejournal.com/10936.html

Ping?

Please try with 2:2.2.0.90-2 which has been uploaded today.

Brice