Timeline for Run an X program when a monitor is plugged in
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| Jun 30, 2019 at 8:08 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @dirkt I'll assist the computer owner to make a bug report (I haven't found an already-reported bug, but “black screen” is very generic and ”black screen“ + exact video card model turned up nothing relevant), but in the meantime the computer still needs to be usable. This has nothing to do with DPMS; it was just a way I stumbled into to force the screen to turn back on. | |
| Jun 30, 2019 at 8:04 | comment | added | dirkt | If it's a video driver bug, I'm sure the developers would like a bugreport so they can fix it. DPMS is really really old, so I'd be surprised to find bugs in there in the driver, and my bet would be on some unintended connection of circumstances which make it fail. In any case, one should eventually fix the cause, instead of doing a workaround. | |
| Jun 30, 2019 at 7:23 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | @dirkt That's a separate problem and I didn't ask a question about it because it's pretty much guaranteed to be a video driver bug. The installation is a pretty basic Ubuntu (it's not my computer). | |
| Jun 30, 2019 at 6:41 | comment | added | dirkt | The really interesting question is why this only happens when logged it, but not at the gdm screen. This suggests some configuration that is applied when logging in that your monitor does't like, and it might be possible to find out this and change it. | |
| S Jun 29, 2019 at 21:11 | answer | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | timeline score: 3 | |
| S Jun 29, 2019 at 21:11 | history | asked | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | CC BY-SA 4.0 |