On Sat, 1 Jun 2019 06:16:58 +0530 Raj Kiran Grandhi < grajki...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > In a fresh install of Buster with XFCE desktop, locking the screen > blanks the monitor and the monitor enters a power save state. After > that, neither moving the mouse nor typing on the keyboard would turn > the monitor back on. > I could find two ways to get the display back on: > > 1. Typing the password without any visual feedback (while the monitor > continues to be in the power save state) unlocks the screen and the user > session is displayed normally. > > 2. Switching to another VT, say vt1 or vt2 turns the monitor back on > and on switching > back to the vt of the original session the unlock prompt is displayed > normally and the screen can be unlocked. >
I've been suffering from this bug in a clean Buster system, too. A solution noted in another bug tracker is to explicitly tell X.org to use the intel driver. Apparently, it uses the fbdev driver by default. (Sorry, I don't have a reference to other bug handy.) Per a suggestion in the other bug, I added the following config about a week ago and haven't seen the problem since. $ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "intel" EndSection jf -- John Franklin <frank...@sentaidigital.com>