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Re: Intermittent blank screen – Stretch

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Mike schreef op 2018-06-02 09:08:
> On 02/06/18 08:11, floris wrote:
>> Mike schreef op 2018-06-01 01:27:
>>> I have just installed Stretch and and randomly getting a 2 second (or
>>> so) blank screen. I can go for quite some time without it happening,
>>> or it can happen several times over a few minutes. I can dual boot
>>> with Jessie and do not have the problem with that – so I think I can
>>> rule out a hardware issue.
>>> 
>>> I have an Nvidia GTX1050 video card, HDMI output to a Samsung 49" TV,
>>> 4K video. There is no other type of input into the TV for me to be
>>> able to test.
>>> 
>>> Here is what I have done
>>> 1. Installed Stretch (amd64) with XFCE
>>> 2. apt-get install firmware-linux nvidia-driver nvidia-settings 
>>> nvidia-xconfig
>>> 3. run nvidia-xconfig
>>> 4. turned off screen blanking in power settings
>>> 
>>> I am quite happy to spend time troubleshooting, but don’t really know
>>> where to start. The blanking happens too quickly for me to be able to
>>> do anything at the time.
>>> 
>>> Does anyone have any thoughts?
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> 
>>> Mike
>> 
>> You can try the NVidia driver module from backports [1] and/or run 
>> journalctl -f in a terminal and wait for the blank screen.
>> 
>> [1] https://packages.debian.org/stretch-backports/nvidia-driver
>> ---
>> Floris
>> 
> Thanks Floris. Nothing from journalctl -f.
> Can you tell me what installing a backport might do? Is that a later
> version of the driver (I only installed Stretch a couple of days ago)
> 
> Mike

In backports there is a newer version of the NVidia module with more bug 
fixes. Maybe this line is relevant:
-  Further improved the fix for occasional flicker when using the X 
driver's composition pipeline. This was mostly fixed in 390.42, but now 
the fix should be more complete.

---
Floris

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Intermittent blank screen – Stretch Mike <m99@kaikohe.net> - 2018-06-01 02:10 +0200
  Re: Intermittent blank screen – Stretch Abdullah Ramazanoğlu <ar018@yahoo.com> - 2018-06-01 02:40 +0200
    Re: Intermittent blank screen – Stretch Mike <m99@kaikohe.net> - 2018-06-01 05:30 +0200
  Re: Intermittent blank screen – Stretch "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2018-06-01 08:00 +0200
  Re: Intermittent blank screen – Stretch Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2018-06-01 11:50 +0200
  Re: Intermittent blank screen – Stretch floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2018-06-01 22:20 +0200
    Re: Intermittent blank screen – Stretch Mike <m99@kaikohe.net> - 2018-06-02 09:10 +0200
      Re: Intermittent blank screen – Stretch floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2018-06-03 21:20 +0200
    Re: Intermittent blank screen – Stretch Mike <m99@kaikohe.net> - 2018-06-03 14:00 +0200
      Re: Intermittent blank screen – Stretch Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-06-03 15:40 +0200
        Re: Intermittent blank screen – Stretch Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2018-06-09 10:30 +0200
          Re: Intermittent blank screen – Stretch Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-06-09 13:00 +0200
    Re: Intermittent blank screen – Stretch Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2018-06-09 10:20 +0200
  Re: Intermittent blank screen – Stretch Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2018-06-02 01:00 +0200
    Re: Intermittent blank screen – Stretch Mike <m99@kaikohe.net> - 2018-06-02 07:30 +0200

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