LCD off: during boot/after waking up from inactivity/after suspension
This is my first time asking something here, so please be as tolerant as possible with any mistake that I make.
The problem: I have installed ubuntu 18.10 and (sometimes ~70% chance) when I boot up the laptop I see a purple screen and then the lcd turns off (just black, without light). The same happens 99% of the times, if i leave the laptop for some minutes in inactivity. When I come back, I press buttons or move the mouse and the lcd remains dead. The same happens 99% of the times, if I wake the laptop from suspension. While the screen is turned off, I can hear sounds if I hit the volume up/down buttons. Furthermore, I can blindly log in, then press Ctrl+Alt+T, write reboot and press enter (all these blindly), and the laptop reboots, prossibly to the same situation. I tried the "nomodeset" trick and it worked, but I get a wrong resolution and extremely bad graphics performance, rendering the laptop unusable. The same goes for "radeon.modeset=0". The same thing happend with Lubuntu 18.04. Is there any possible solution to this problem? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Laptop model: HP pavilion dv6 1120ev Graphics: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4530 Code:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV710/M92 [Mobility Radeon HD 4530/4570/545v] [1002:9553] Code:
dmesg | grep -i radeon |
FWIW this is an equally old Dell that has a RV730/M96-XT and works fine at 1920x1080 - but no 3D eye candy as I have no use for it. There have been regressions in the past that have caused issues with the radeon driver, but not for a couple of years. I would expect recent Ubuntu to use reasonably recent kernels (I use Fedora).
I see the following in a commented line in my grub defaults - but I don't recall the specific reasons, and as I say, it was a while ago. Code:
radeon.dpm=0 radeon.aspm=0 radeon.runpm=0 |
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There is something new, though. I found a key combination (fn + f5 if I remember correctly) which triggers sleep mode. If I press it several times, one of them manages to wake up the screen properly. The weird part is that it is happening randomly, in most but not all "wake up" attempts of the laptop. |
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