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Re: Intermittent blank screen – Stretch

From Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Intermittent blank screen – Stretch
Date 2018-06-09 10:20 +0200
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On 06/01/2018 01:11 PM, 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

It's a bug and can be reproduced, happens on both Intel and Nvidia.
Does not happen on Wheeze or Jessie without systemd.

Thanks,
-- 
Jimmy Johnson

Devuan Jessie - TDE Trinity R14.0.4 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda2
Registered Linux User #380263

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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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