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External Monitor enters Power Save
I am running openSUSE Leap 15.1 on my Lenovo ThinkPad T440p laptop and use the Dell 24' monitor E248WFP as an external second display.
At times the external display goes blank and shows "Entering Power Save". The laptop display is not effected. I still could not pinpoint what triggers this behaviour. It try the usual things "restart", "shutdown", "disconnecting the monitor" and after a while, sometimes hours, the screen comes to live again. I checked dmesg, but was not sure what to look for. I also saved /etc/interrupts and compared it to the file after the display went blank with the result: * there was an IO-APIC 9-fastevi interrupt * there were 2333 new interrupts listed in the line with PCI-MSI * there were 10449 new interrupts in the line TLB shootdown I do not want to put anybody on a possible false track, I am just telling what I have done so far. I would appreciate any help * in finding out what goes wrong * and come up with a solution for avoiding this inconvenience or at least recover faster from it. |
Which DE do you use?
Does executing xrandr wake up the external screen? Please provide output from inxi -GxxSza (you may need to install if first). It should resemble this if using the openSUSE version: Code:
> /usr/bin/inxi -GxxSza Code:
> inxi -GxxSza |
Have you checked the monitor's own menu? It's a long shot, but it may have some built-in power-saver setting.
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External Monitor enters Power Save
This is my reply to mrmazda
Unfortunately, xrandr did not help. Also xrandr --display HDMI-1 produced Code:
Can't open display HDMI-1 It was a bit tricky to find out that I had to install in addition also Mesa-demo-x Entering the command inxi -GxxSza yields: Code:
inxi -GxxSza Code:
System: Host: linux-8r1d Kernel: 4.12.14-lp151.28.32-default x86_64 bits: 64 gcc: 7.4.1 |
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man xrandr might have something to apply to the external output to wake it back up, maybe --auto. How to keep it active is another question. https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documenta...parameters.txt has some cmdline options that can affect video behavior, e.g. acpi_backlight= or consoleblank=. |
External Monitor enters Power Save
answer to frankbell and scase
good point! What I did not mention in my first post: I had connected the Dell monitor to a second laptop running kubuntu as OS and everything work without a hitch. But, since I still do not know what triggers the entering into power save this was not finally conclusive. Maybe, if I had worked with that laptop a little long the effect might have happened. So, I checked today the OSD menue of the Dell monitor. It offers no item on power saving. |
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