Comment 195 for bug 600453
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| John Lenton (chipaca) wrote Re: [Bug 600453] Re: [arrandale] [i915] DELL E6510: blank screen on boot (Intel GPU) | #195 |
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:20:39 -0000, Alfe <email address hidden> wrote:
> After testing now for a second day, no stability issues (X crashes) to
> report (which is a great relief!).
>
> One issue found: I suspended at work with a second monitor attached,
> then unplugged the second monitor, went home, tried to resume without a
> second monitor, got a black screen with backlight. Switching to other
> consoles worked, but switching back to X just restored the black screen.
> So I could kill and restart my X from another console, so rebooting
> wasn't necessary, but of course the session was lost.
>
> I can prevent running into this problem by either unplugging the second
> monitor (and quickly reconfiguring the X for single-display) before
> suspending or maybe (didn't test this) by attaching another second
> monitor before resuming, so there is a workaround.
did you try hitting the 'change monitor' button (or whatever it's
called; Fn+F8 on my e6510) in X?