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Fred Krogh
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 Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2015 5:37 pm Post subject: HDMI Monitor off then on kills display (FIXED -- sort of) |
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If my monitor times out and turns off (or I turn it off manually), when turned back on there is no display. I can get to a console and I can see there that the display manager (tried slim and lightdm on an xfce4 system) is running. The only way I have found to get my desktop again is to kill the display manager and rerun it. Of course the previous state of things is lost. Any ideas? Thanks,
Fred
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Fred Krogh
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| Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2015 12:24 am Post subject: |
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| I'm still hoping someone has some ideas. What part of the system would be responsible for shutting down X just because the monitor was turned of manually? Maybe there is a configuration fille for X, something in the kernel, something for the Nvidia card, ...? I should note that X and xfce all have multiple processes running. They are just all sleeping and I can think of no say to get them out of their sleep mode. |
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ct85711
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| Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2015 5:11 am Post subject: |
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| I don't know if it would work, but you could maybe make a entry in your xorg.cond for your monitor (if you don't already have one), so that xorg doesn't forget about the monitor. |
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Fred Krogh
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| Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2015 5:12 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks for the thought. But that was done long ago. |
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ct85711
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I'll play around with my hdmi monitor/tv attached to my nvidia card and see if I can see anything going on, maybe produce it on my system too (I am running ~amd64, so don't know if that'll have an effect or not).
Only other thing from the web I saw that may help, is using | Code: | | xrandr -d :0 --output HDMI1 --auto |
to try getting the display manager to turn the monitor back on (adjust the HDMI1 to what ever xrandr lists for the HDMI port as necessary).
An old post, may or may not help any.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/405645/how-to-enable-monitor-from-terminal |
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Fred Krogh
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I liked your suggestions. Unfortunately my computer feels otherwise. If I type | Quote: | | xrandr -d :0 --output HDMI-0 --auto |
in a terminal window nothing happens,. But with the monitor off, and in a console, this gives the following errror | Code: | X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 139 (RANDR)
Minor opcode of failed request: 7 (RRSetScreenSize)
Serial number of failed request: 46
Current serial number in output stream: 47 |
Perhps this has some meaning to someone. Other trys at running xrandr got complains about no display.
The other suggestion of removing (in my case) ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/displays.xml, and rebooting had no effect. That file was not there on the reboot. It contained | Quote: | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<channel name="displays" version="1.0">
<property name="Notify" type="bool" value="false"/>
</channel> |
I have now restored this file. Perhaps someone has suggestions for changes to make in this file. |
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Fred Krogh
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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| I have discovered something that can serve as a fix. Start with <cntr><????><F1> to get to a console window. Turn off the monitor. .... Turn on the monitor, and <cntr><???> to get back into X, and all is still there!! A little bit of a nuisance, but much better that having to restore all the work spaces after logging out and then logging back in. |
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Till now i saw this only with DisplayPort, would you like to post your xrandr output? |
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Fred Krogh
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Happy to to this. xrandr gives | Code: | Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 3840 x 2160, maximum 16384 x 16384
DVI-I-0 disconnected primary (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-I-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-0 connected 3840x2160+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 1095mm x 616mm
3840x2160 30.00*+ 29.97 23.98
4096x2160 29.97 24.00 23.98
1920x1080 119.88 60.00 59.94 23.97 60.00
1280x720 60.00 59.94
720x480 59.94
DP-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-4 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-5 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
Unknown-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
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