Trying to reconfigure Xorg not to use the intel driver, I ran: Xorg -configure :1 This just gave me a black screen with a mouse pointer... Since using the keys to switch workspaces lead to changes in the mouse pointer, I understood that my apps where still there, but not displayed... I used C-A-Suppr to restart and it worked.
But this clearly means that the Xorg intel driver IS BROKEN, so please DO SOMETHING... At least revert it, since it was working flawlessly in 15.10... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1580219 Title: screen switches off Status in xserver-xorg-video-intel package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Hi, My computer is an ASUS X751L with a Dell monitor connected through VGA. I've just upgraded to 16.04 "Xenial" and rebooted. Now this external monitor often goes black when I mouse my mouse to the native LVDS screen. I've still not been able to find the exact conditions, but it seems to occur when I don't move the mouse for a long time, then move it to the other screen. The screen goes black and comes back quickly, as if I would have run "xset dpms force off". Also, from time to time, the upper part of my LVDS screen just "scrambles" (you know, like when the old cathodic TVs were trembling...) for a few seconds when I click on some keys on the keyboard (e.g. the CTL-ALT-ARROWS, which are associated to "Desktop"/Tag switching in my AwesomeWM config) For more info: # Executing a few commands found on another page (https://askubuntu.com/questions/28033/how-to-check-the-information-of-current-installed-video-drivers) to provide more info: $ lspci | grep VGA ; lsmod | grep "kms\|drm" ; find /dev -group video ; \ cat /proc/cmdline ; find /etc/modprobe.d/; cat /etc/modprobe.d/*kms* ; \ ls /etc/X11/xorg.conf ; glxinfo | grep -i "vendor\|rendering" ; \ grep LoadModule /var/log/Xorg.0.log 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics (rev 09) drm_kms_helper 139264 1 i915 syscopyarea 16384 1 drm_kms_helper sysfillrect 16384 1 drm_kms_helper sysimgblt 16384 1 drm_kms_helper fb_sys_fops 16384 1 drm_kms_helper drm 360448 5 i915,drm_kms_helper /dev/video0 find: ‘/dev/vboxusb’: Permission denied /dev/fb0 /dev/dri/card0 /dev/dri/renderD128 /dev/dri/controlD64 BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-22-generic.efi.signed root=UUID=a3c0bf21-3b98-45f2-8f95-2abd53cef1e7 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 /etc/modprobe.d/ /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-rare-network.conf /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-firewire.conf /etc/modprobe.d/mlx4.conf /etc/modprobe.d/fbdev-blacklist.conf /etc/modprobe.d/iwlwifi.conf /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-ath_pci.conf /etc/modprobe.d/vmwgfx-fbdev.conf /etc/modprobe.d/intel-microcode-blacklist.conf /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer.conf /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-oss.conf /etc/modprobe.d/dkms.conf /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-watchdog.conf /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-modem.conf /etc/modprobe.d/qemu-system-x86.conf # modprobe information used for DKMS modules # # This is a stub file, should be edited when needed, # used by default by DKMS. /bin/ls: cannot access '/etc/X11/xorg.conf': No such file or directory direct rendering: Yes server glx vendor string: SGI client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI Vendor: Intel Open Source Technology Center (0x8086) OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center [ 33.140] (II) LoadModule: "glx" [ 34.658] (II) LoadModule: "intel" [ 34.831] (II) LoadModule: "modesetting" [ 34.883] (II) LoadModule: "fbdev" [ 34.916] (II) LoadModule: "vesa" [ 34.989] (II) LoadModule: "fbdevhw" [ 35.092] (II) LoadModule: "dri2" [ 35.092] (II) LoadModule: "present" [ 39.380] (II) LoadModule: "evdev" [ 39.740] (II) LoadModule: "synaptics" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/1580219/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
