Bug 750135 - screen doesn't come back on when off, and key is pressed
Summary: screen doesn't come back on when off, and key is pressed
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-intel
Version: 16
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Adam Jackson
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-10-31 06:24 UTC by Andy Grover
Modified: 2012-01-09 17:02 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-01-09 17:02:11 UTC
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Description Andy Grover 2011-10-31 06:24:16 UTC
When the screen is turned off by the "Turn off after" setting in System Settings -> Screen, it does not get turned back on by user activity (e.g. keypress), like it should. This is also annoying because there's no disable (see bug 692037) so leaving the laptop on will eventually result in this behavior, if a user has stepped away.

Interestingly, suspending/resuming the laptop in this state turns the backlight back on, so at least that's something.

This is on a Lenovo Edge e220s laptop with

 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09).

Comment 1 Lars Sjöström 2011-11-21 09:08:05 UTC
Same problem on my Lenovo e420s.

same VGA chip.

Comment 2 Lars Sjöström 2011-11-21 09:53:37 UTC
[lsjostro@lsjostro ~]$ lspci -nn -s 00:02
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0116] (rev 09)

[lsjostro@lsjostro ~]$ rpm -qa|grep mesa
mesa-libGL-7.11-11.fc16.i686
mesa-libGLU-7.11-11.fc16.x86_64
mesa-libGL-7.11-11.fc16.x86_64
mesa-dri-drivers-7.11-11.fc16.x86_64
mesa-dri-filesystem-7.11-11.fc16.x86_64
mesa-libGLU-7.11-11.fc16.i686

[lsjostro@lsjostro ~]$ uname -r
3.1.1-1.fc16.x86_64
[lsjostro@lsjostro ~]$

Comment 3 Lars Sjöström 2011-11-22 18:23:48 UTC
Issue has been resolved with this errata: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F16/FEDORA-2011-16169

You may close this BZ.

Cheers!

Comment 4 Andy Grover 2011-11-22 20:01:58 UTC
this bug still shows up for me, with the updated package.

1) Set timeout to 1 minute
2) Wait until screen dims and backlight goes out
3) press keys. it still doesn't come back

Is it fixed on your e420s?

Comment 5 Lars Sjöström 2011-11-22 20:28:38 UTC
Yes that's exactly what I did and it works for me.
I have a fully updated F16 with latest kernel (3.1.1-2.fc16.x86_64)

That's really strange because I believe e220s and e420s is basically the same machine?

Comment 6 Lars Sjöström 2011-11-22 20:48:15 UTC
I think I spoke to quickly! tested once more and this time the backlight didnt come back. Looks like its not consistent. annoying! 

Back to square one!

Something else we can do to debug? 

Maybe a Tickless kernel thing? I will try the nohz=off boot options.

Comment 7 Andy Grover 2012-01-07 00:07:48 UTC
this is working ok for me now. Lars, how's it working for you?

Comment 8 Lars Sjöström 2012-01-09 09:17:12 UTC
Yes, now it working!

Comment 9 Andy Grover 2012-01-09 17:02:11 UTC
yay it works! closing.


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