gnome-shell is frozen upon wakeup from DPMS (bisected)

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Mon Nov 14 01:46:13 UTC 2016


On 11/11/16 02:21 AM, Max Staudt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have bisected a commit in v4.6 that fixes a freeze of the screen on
> DPMS sleep:
> 
> 777e3cbc791f131806d9bf24b3325637c7fc228d drm/radeon: Switch to drm_vblank_on/off
> 
> 
> When running 'xset dpms force off' in a GNOME session (I tested this on
> openSUSE Leap 42.2), sometimes the screen will freeze, sometimes it will
> not. It may take several tries.
> 
> When it does freeze, the mouse can still be used, but clicking anything
> will (seem to?) have no effect. Typing in an open terminal still works,
> albeit the screen will still be frozen. Run "xterm" and the screen will
> unfreeze. Running "xlogo" does not unfreeze it.

Does this still happen with current xf86-video-ati Git master?


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