[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#773913: Bug#773913: Bug#773913: Lightdm switches immediately to a black screen
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On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 12:18:20AM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Hi Yves-Alexis,
>
> I have experienced the same issue as described by Fabien.
>
> What happens is, if I leave my laptop unused for a (very) long period of
> time idle, it goes into darkness (slowly fades out, then full screen black).
So something in your desktop environment handles the brightness and sets
it to minimum?
> When I want to wake-up my latop, I just press any key. This wakes up the
> laptop, but it does *not* set the screen brightness back to normal.
Ok.
>
> Increasing the brightness on the lightdm password prompt doesn't work.
I assume your laptop needs something in userspace to handle the
brightness keys, then?
> However, if I just type my password (blankly, hoping it works...), then I
> get to X (using the mate Desktop in my case), then brightness control works,
> and I can see the screen again.
Because MATE handles the brightness keys.
>
> Before I knew this trick, I thought my laptop was crashed. So I just powered
> off, then on again. But then when lightdm gets back, it sets the brightness
> to zero again (meaning screen is off in my case), and I can see nothing. The
> only way is again, to type my login and password blanking (without any
> control to see if I typed correctly), then when X start, I can set the
> brightness again.
>
> I can confirm that the issue is in lightdm, because gdm doesn't have this
> issue. I'm also using systemd. I'm using the Nouveau driver (and probably
> also the intel i915 since my laptop has 2 cards). I'm not sure this is
> related to video board and driver, but I thought it was a good info.
It's somehow related yeah. Brightness keys handling has been a mess
these past years. It was once handled completely by the laptops embedded
controller, then it was done by the kernel/ACPI, then by the driver,
then by basically noone (since Windows 8 laptops), so it has to be done
in userspace.
>
> I believe that the best way to fix it, is to make sure that the brightness
> controls are *always* working in lightdm. If I get back to lightdm with a
> black screen, I don't really mind if I can fix that by increasing the
> brightness...
Sure, but I'm not sure handling the brightness keys are really the role
of a login screen. I'll forward this upstream but don't hold your
breath.
>
> If I may help to debug the issue in any way, let me know. I'd be happy to do
> whatever you propose to debug the issue or test some fixes.
It might help to know which kind of laptop it is.
Regards,
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Yves-Alexis
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