Control: severity -1 normal Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 23:18:14 +1100, Takis Diakoumis wrote: > Package: xserver-xorg-core > Version: 2:1.16.1-1 > Severity: grave > > Dear Maintainer, > > [ issues with reportbug #758619 prevented me from using it completely > to send this report so I generated using reportbug --template ] > > Since upgrading from 2.:1.16.0.901-1 to the above version I have been > unable to use a second screen attached to my laptop. During this > update, I also went from linux-image-amd64 (3.14+59) to 3.16+61 – not > sure if its relevant. > Actually this seems more likely to be a kernel issue than an X one. > I have Debian Jessie on a Thinkpad T440s. > > I normally boot with the second monitor attached and it boots fine > into gdm. Since the update, booting with the monitor attached blanks > the laptop screen (primary screen) as X starts. The second screen > works fine as a second screen – as in the primary display is off but > it behaves as if it is there. The only way out here is to ctrl-alt-f1 > to a terminal and reboot. > Is the screen actually dead, or does it "just" reset the brightness to minimum? I.e. do the brightness keys or poking /sys/class/backlight/*/brightness work? Cheers, Julien
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