Bug#440802: xserver-xorg-video-ati: DPMS + suspend/resume, display never recovers

Joshua N Pritikin jpritikin at pobox.com
Thu Sep 13 01:18:25 PDT 2007


OK, I just tested it again.

On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 06:13:49PM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
> Also, after suspend/resume (once DPMS is engaged and X does not
> recover), go to a virtual console and tell me what the following command
> line says (dpms lines at the end of its output):
>   $ DISPLAY=:0 xset q
> Then try the following commands in case they help recovering:
>   $ DISPLAY=:0 xset -dpms

After this command, 'xset q' reports that dpms is off. However, the 
screen stays blank.

>   $ DISPLAY=:0 xset force dpms off

This allows the screen to come back.





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