On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 12:32:47AM +0100, enno wrote: > First thanks for hangin on. And no, it's definitely not in a suspend/resume > cycle--i cold boot into the system, and the problem is there. Still not > understood, especially the strange flicker between screen on and off. But as > I'm not a LCD technician I haven't a clue, if this is just backlight off or > whatever effect it may be. But as stated before, the LCD display is black, > but all standard 7 VTs are there and listening to my entries via > keyboard--well confirmed I have so far VT1 to VT3, but I don't suppose it > could be different on VT4 to 6. Presumably VT7 is working too, but that is a > wee bit difficult to test without seeing the mouse pointer.
Do your backlight keys work? E24 has introduced additional screen dimming, and it will dim the backlight fully. Maybe there's a strange interaction between your video card's brightness control and E's behavior. It's possible to disable this, but it'll be hard without ever getting an E session going. To try disabling by hand: 1) apt install libeet-bin 2) vieet ~/.e/e/config/standard/e_comp.cfg config 3) Search for "nofade" 4) Change the value from 0 to 1. The line should be: value "nofade" uchar: 1; > In the past I had some difficulties with a certain release of i can't really > remember, i think it was aptitude back then, which after some package updates > stopped working properly. Some people from the debian response team said > they were surprised that my system was working at all, because of some very > old packages combined with a lot of the testing suite. They suggested to > upgrade the whole system. After that, aptitude worked. And yes, this might > be some sort of solution in this case as well. But I still doubt that this > Windows kind of solution is the ultimate debian way: Reinstall. According to the info included in your bug report, your apt prefers testing and has the expected versions of E & EFL from testing. That all seems pretty normal. So I don't expect reinstalling anything will help. Ross