Screen switches off after successful lightdm login from suspend
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xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
On a ThinkPad E465 with dual AMD graphics (both integrated AMD Radeon R6 and dedicated Radeon R5 graphics) running Xubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver, when opening the lid, lightdm asks for my password, after successfully unlocking the device, the screen goes black with the backlight on for a second, then switches off entirely (nothing is visible at all, regardless of whether there is light incident on the screen or not), but Xfce still works, notifications still sound etc.
When closing the laptop lid again, causing it to go back in to suspend, then opening the lid again, the screen switches back on, briefly (less than a second) displays PCI-related messages on a tty before lightdm appears, and I can continue to Xfce like normal. Switching to tty1 clears the screen and these lines don't appear in dmesg at all.
However, the system appears unstable. When the problem occurred for the first time, Firefox froze, apt froze when executed from a terminal window (though apps launched from the Xfce menu worked fine), both requiring 'kill' in Task Manager.
Thus, I used Xfce to reboot the machine, but stop jobs ran what appeared to be indefinitely for CUPS and PackageKit, presumably because they too froze.
As long as the system didn't suspend during the uptime, the system works like a charm and I've had no other issues or stability complaints.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu7
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: amd64
BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/boot.log'
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Thu Jul 5 15:28:03 2018
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: bionic
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingI
GraphicsCard:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Carrizo [1002:9874] (rev c5) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Lenovo Carrizo [17aa:5116]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-07-05 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
MachineType: LENOVO 20EXS00E00
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 12/20/2017
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: R01ET41W (1.21 )
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: 20EXS00E00
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: SDK0J40697 WIN
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:
dmi.product.family: ThinkPad E465
dmi.product.name: 20EXS00E00
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.91-2
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Hmm. `xrandr --listmonitors` gives two monitors connected:
george@ ThinkPad- E465:~/ Documents/ bug$ xrandr --listmonitors 173+0+0 eDP 173+0+0 eDP
Monitors: 2
0: +*eDP 1366/309x768/
1: +*eDP 1366/309x768/
There is only one monitor on this laptop, the internal display.