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Xorg screen freezes with LVDS off
« on: December 20, 2009, 11:57:15 PM »
I have begun to play around with my screens (EeePC 1000HE netbook with 1600x900 external monitor).

I have scripted one of the hot-keys to cycle through switching the combinations of monitors on and off.

However, at about the same time, and also just at the same time as starting to use tc-2.7, I am getting screen freezes. I would be busy doing anything, in X, and suddenly it freezes (the mouse cursor still moves). But no action at all. I can still exit X with ctl-alt-backspace, and restart X but it will freeze again after a little while, so it appears to be X that is the culprit.

I have not seen this before.

Is there any hint of xrandr in Xorg being a problem? (I still have to check if it freezes without using xrandr.)
« Last Edit: December 21, 2009, 08:07:53 PM by jur »

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Re: Xorg screen freezes with LVDS off
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2009, 04:43:01 PM »
After more tests it seems the freezing problem arises when I have the netbook screen set to off. Within a very short time (less than a minute usually) it freezes, very repeatably. It does it with using xrandr but also when setting it to off via xorg.conf.

So it seems an Xorg bug, not xrandr.
« Last Edit: December 21, 2009, 08:08:22 PM by jur »

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Re: Xorg screen freezes with LVDS off
« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2009, 08:10:47 PM »
Tried with tc-2.6.1, same behaviour.