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title="NEW - External monitor flickering after screen turns on after inactivity"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107103">107103</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>External monitor flickering after screen turns on after inactivity
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<th>Product</th>
<td>xorg
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>Other
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>Driver/intel
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>freedesktop-bugs@jbeekman.nl
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<th>QA Contact</th>
<td>intel-gfx-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<pre>When I "wiggle the mouse" after all screens have gone off from inactivity, my
external monitor sometimes starts flickering. It will show my desktop for about
a second, then go black, and after a couple of seconds it will come back, and
this repeats indefinitely until I restart X. Resetting the monitor (by removing
and re-inserting the power cable) doesn't help. Turn off the monitor using
xrandr and bringing it back on doesn't help. While the flickering is happening,
the monitor shows up as connected in xrandr with the correct resolution. My
laptop screen and my other external monitor are not affected. This only started
happening after a recent software update.
I suspect this is a software issue as everything was working fine until I
upgraded the following packages:
mesa (17.3.6-1 -> 18.1.3-1)
linux (4.15.10-1 -> 4.17.3-1)
xorg-server (1.19.6+13+gd0d1a694f-1 -> 1.20.0-9)
xf86-video-intel (1:2.99.917+812+g75795523-1 -> 1:2.99.917+831+ge7bfc906-1)
There is nothing being logged in Xorg.0.log or dmesg. Please let me know if
there are any debugging steps I can perform the next time this is happening.
Hardware: Dell Latitude E7470
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6650U CPU @ 2.20GHz
GPU: Intel Corporation Iris Graphics 540
Laptop monitor connected on eDP1
Acer monitor connectied on DP1-1 (DVI via docking station)
Samsung TV connected on HDMI1
Distro: Arch Linux
~ $uname -a
Linux jethro 4.17.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 26 04:42:36 UTC 2018 x86_64
GNU/Linux
~ $sudo cat /sys/class/drm/card0/error
No error state collected</pre>
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