-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Tue, 2018-10-23 at 08:07 -0700, Jeremiah Mahler wrote: > Re: Yves-Alexis, > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 11:01:21AM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > [...] > > On Mon, 2018-10-22 at 20:48 -0700, Jeremiah Mahler wrote: > > > I am experiencing this problem and I found a workaround ... > > > > Did you try the other workarounds (vt-switch back and forth)? Was it not > > working? > > > > Alt-F1, Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, etc, don't get me to the terminal prompt. > Maybe I'm using the wrong keys in Xfce?
Try Ctrl-Alt-F1 then Ctrl-Alt-F8. > > > > If I create an Xorg config file that says to use the Intel > > > driver it works. > > > > Interesting. There might be a bad interaction with the driver where it > > doesn't > > switch the backlight on or something. > > > Perusing the /var/log/Xorg.0.log finds that it was using the > > > fbdev driver before. > > > > Are you sure? I think Intel cards should be using the “modesetting” driver > > by > > default. > > > > Hmm, I found references to both fbdev and modesetting modules in the > Xorg.0.log (see attached). That's interesting indeed. Do you have multiple video adapters or just one? Can you try to remove xserver-xorg-video-fbdev and see what happens? Regards, - -- Yves-Alexis -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEE8vi34Qgfo83x35gF3rYcyPpXRFsFAlvPPj4ACgkQ3rYcyPpX RFu+vwf9Fye72g4ifG+dRcnYDzMyXGCC9iz+5ovkj/Vmvm2VhB1YQX22BtqurFkx Nw3w0N5YqKto0geRmnaVUNkQgXeT4kRmhl4RGqmvYJvyfy939RY3qBNu4H7gz0m6 F7bUMvxcB427Tbs1+AAkTDkMRvcek554Y2qFkGsfPkF19MfCIYWi2AZofon7yNPR iWPV9emqoIUmhsIg2xptEO3+xpU+m17pDtrf763t2nP8kg8mYbzV7vyKUgmjz1Wd dw9scn3JR8CNpjHfrL21JQhFvaVMuKZoomw8XXd6wHuh8VFo5caLU7GoOF8SMRgg /G30+guXUHQSMlsq7JItPO9I5CLp6A== =nwQh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----