Re: [REGRESSION] 4.18-rc2: X61s thinkpad display unusable after xlock & lid close

[Ville Syrjälä]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 05:05:48PM -0700, Vito Caputo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Beginning with 4.18, when I lock my X server using the `xlock` command,
> and close the lid, upon reopening the lid I am not presented with the
> xlock UI.
> 
> The system is not hung.  If I blindly enter the password, I get an
> intact and functional pointer but none of the desktop is displayed.  I
> can move the pointer, and cycling window focus generates some random
> noise occasionally, but it's all nonsensical.  No windows are
> discernable, it's just blackness with ephemeral noise on window cycles,
> and a movable pointer.
> 
> The system does not suspend on lid close, with "HandleLidSwitch=ignore"
> in logind.conf.  So this is a bit odd, since I don't observe this when I
> just run `xlock` but don't close/open the lid before unlocking.
> 
> This is on Debian 9.4 amd64, the hardware is a 1.8Ghz X61s ThinkPad,
> kernel config attached.  I'm using the modesetting Xorg driver on i915
> KMS.

Ah, a Thinkpad with lid notifier. Now were getting somewhere :)

Can you pls test the stuff I listed here
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105902#c5 ?

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Ville Syrjälä
Intel