[Bug 88960] X server comes up with black screen if screensaver is activated on another X server

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Wed Feb 4 03:36:16 PST 2015


https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88960

--- Comment #5 from Maxim Mikityanskiy <maxtram95 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Chris Wilson from comment #4)
> The screensaver does turn off the output, at the device level.
> 
> > Why are they all connected? Looks like a bug, huh.
> 
> The status is technically unknown since you have not asked X to query it
> yet. During startup we only look at the active mode on the active outputs
> rather than do a slow probe on all outputs.
> 
> For your peace of mind, they are now reported correctly as unknown.

Thanks for the nice explanation!

As lightdm relies on that fbcon will turn on the screen before Xorg starts, and
lightdm can come up with no outputs enabled, I will report this bug to lightdm.

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