On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 10:16:23AM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: Hello Antoine,
>> 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... I'm running XFCE, so we can probably rule GNOME out. I wonder if you have the same hardware as me for example? [Maybe you can do a dmesg diff?] Laurie
