[lug] screen frequently blacks out on recent update...

[Davide Del Vento]

I have this happening occasionally to me. Changing the cables did not fix
it. Power supplies in the monitor seemed unlikely, since it randomly
affected either one of two monitors. Bad graphic card could be, however I
inadvertently found the following workaround which stops the problem for
the day and prevented me from worrying more about it (the machine will need
to be replaced in several months anyway, so not worth my time once I've
found this): go in pure-text mode (CTRL-ALT-F1), stay there for a few
seconds, go back to graphic mode (ALT-F7). Without this workaround, the
problem will continue so much to make the machine close to useless.

Hope this helps.
Davide


On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 8:39 AM D. Stimits <stimits at comcast.net> wrote:

> On January 22, 2019 at 5:15 AM Bear Giles <bgiles at coyotesong.com> wrote:
>
> Has anyone else seen their screen frequently blank out for 1-2 seconds
> after a recent update? This is happening on both an Ubuntu 18.10 and CentOS
> system. I don't think it's a hardware issue since it's two different
> systems, two different monitors, and both have worked fine until the last
> few days.
>
> I've had this occur when the power supply in the monitor was going bad.
> I've also had this occur when the cables needed reseating. I also replaced
> what I believe was a bad video card once for this (the problem went away
> for a while). I also did not believe it was the monitor because it affected
> both monitors, but if you have more than one, and hot plug detects one go
> out and back in, they *both* blink as it reconfigures. More often it has
> been the power supply going out (I've replaced power supplies within a
> couple of different monitors...apparently this is more common than it might
> appear). Perhaps the update was just coincidental.
>
>
> Both are running Gnome.
>
> (BTW I never managed to fix Gnome under 18.04. I eventually updated to
> 18.10 and it now works... but oddly I still get the Kubuntu logo when I'm
> prompted for the hardware decryption password.)
>
> Bear
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