On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 09:00:57AM +0000, Laurence Tratt wrote: > I've been having an intermittent problem for some months with my X11 screen > blanking (i.e. going totally black -- however, the mouse still displays and > changes shape depending on what it's hovering over!). Switching to > Ctrl+Alt+F1 and back fixes it, though once in a while causes X11 to crash. > Sometimes this doesn't happen for a few days, at which point I think I've > fixed it. Sometimes it happens several times in 10 minutes. There is no > obvious trigger for it: I might have a web browser loaded or not, or ffmpeg > running or not etc etc.
I have been seeing the same. I can usually reproduce it by having lots of chromium tabs with heavy web sites opened (like clicking on 5 or 6 links from google news). I blamed GNOME but that might not be the case... -- Antoine
