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On 18/10/2013 03:02, Michael J. Barillier wrote: |
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> If I leave my laptop unattended (at a console, not X) and the screen |
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> blanks, pressing a key won't un-blank the terminal. As a test, I ssh'ed |
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> into the laptop and ran: |
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> # setterm -blank poke >/dev/tty$N |
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> (as root, for the current/active TTY) which according to the man page |
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> should restore the screen - no response. Also tried chvt but that |
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> didn't work either. Any suggestions on where to look to see why the |
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> terminal won't restore? Is this a kernel config (ACPI?) issue, or an |
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> agetty issue? |
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What video hardware are you using, and what driver? |
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I've had similar issues in the past myself with a variety of causes: |
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- dodgy versions of mesa |
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- dodgy versions of video drivers (both nouveau and radeon) |
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- incorrect kernel settings, usually getting KMS wrong |
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- incompatible combinations of framebuffer and KMS |
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I don't recall any case where the problem was purely userland and the |
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kernel systems were not involved |
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hth |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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