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Bug 490041 - ThinkPad T43 LCD black after being turned off (lid close, xrandr)
Summary: ThinkPad T43 LCD black after being turned off (lid close, xrandr)
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 489907
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-intel
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Kristian Høgsberg
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: IntelKMS
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-03-12 22:38 UTC by Will Woods
Modified: 2018-04-11 08:19 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-05-12 19:09:23 UTC
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Xorg.0.log from Thinkpad T43 (deleted)
2009-03-12 22:38 UTC, Will Woods 		no flags Details
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Description Will Woods 2009-03-12 22:38:39 UTC 
Created attachment 335022 [details]
Xorg.0.log from Thinkpad T43

If I close the lid on my ThinkPad (i915GM chipset), when I open it again the screen is black (with the backlight still on).

Same thing happens if I turn the screen off using xrandr / gnome-display-properties - if I try to re-enable the display, it never comes on.

Keyboard still works, but VT switch does nothing. I can ssh in and check logs, but there's nothing interesting in Xorg.0.log or syslog.

Curiously, suspend/resume work fine - so when this happens, I can suspend my machine and the display comes back on resume. This also doesn't happen if I'm running with 'nomodeset'.

Attaching Xorg.0.log, so mcepl won't yell at me :D
Comment 1 Adam Jackson 2009-04-13 19:34:27 UTC 
What happens if you do 'xset dpms force off ; sleep 3 ; xset dpms force on' ? Does the screen come back?
Comment 2 Will Woods 2009-04-14 02:36:24 UTC 
Yeah, that does exactly what you'd expect: panel turns off for three seconds, then comes back just as it was.

When you open the lid, the screen/backlight turns *on*, but it's black. Nothing seems to revive it short of suspend/resume. 

Interestingly, trying to kill X when it's in this state (ssh laptop.local, sudo telinit 3) causes it to hard-lock - no keyboard input, can't suspend, etc.
Comment 3 Jóhann B. Guðmundsson 2009-04-15 22:27:41 UTC 
Same for me on my T61p turns off for three seconds then comes back just as it was. ( xset dpms force off ; sleep 3 ; xset dpms force on" ) which makes me wonder
if this is actually caused by something that happens after we close the lid and leave it closed for x period of time. something has started like the screen-saver or something that locks out the monitor..
Comment 4 Matěj Cepl 2009-04-17 13:56:42 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> Attaching Xorg.0.log, so mcepl won't yell at me :D  

I don't yell at anybody (mostly ;-)). But there is apparently not much to do and ajax is here, so I will let him to have a fun.
Comment 5 Will Woods 2009-04-26 18:21:58 UTC 
One other note: now that the GNOME code's all fixed, the screen turns on/off as expected for DPMS suspend (as set in the Power Management preferences). Closing the lid still causes nothing to get drawn, though.

Re comment #3 - no, it's not something that happens over a long period of time. I can close the lid, count to three, and reopen it and the screen will be dead.

Any clues about how I could debug this further would be greatly appreciated.
Comment 6 Fabio Alessandro Locati 2009-05-04 21:27:18 UTC 
I have the same problem on a DELL inspiron 640m (same graphic card)
Comment 7 Jim Radford 2009-05-11 17:45:57 UTC 
Things are getting better (on my x61).  Now after closing/opening the lid *twice* the screen will come back.  The first time it's blank.

  2.6.30-rc5-00096-ga4d7749
  xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.7.0-4.fc11.x86_64

I get one of the these messages every lid close/open cycle.

  ...
  [drm] LVDS-8: set mode  1a
  [drm] LVDS-8: set mode  1b
  [drm] LVDS-8: set mode  1c
  [drm] LVDS-8: set mode  1d

Of course I can't seen the first one until I perform the cycle again.  At least I don't have to reboot now!

I haven't seen others report this but even when the display was blank I could at least switch to another virtual console and log in in text mode.

FWIW, I also get these on startup.  I'm not sure if they are related.

  [drm:i915_gem_object_bind_to_gtt] *ERROR* GTT full, but LRU list empty
  [drm:i915_gem_object_pin] *ERROR* Failure to bind: -12
  [drm:i915_gem_evict_something] *ERROR* inactive empty 1 request empty 1 flushing empty 1
Comment 8 Will Woods 2009-05-12 19:09:23 UTC 
Discussed on IRC a bit with ajax/krh present - consensus is that this is the same as bug 489907.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 489907 ***
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