#1060172 xserver-xorg-core: Screen remains desperately black after starting Xorg on Thinkpad X201s #1060172
- Package:
- xserver-xorg-core
- Source:
- xserver-xorg-core
- Description:
- Xorg X server - core server
- Submitter:
- Stefan Monnier
- Date:
- 2024-01-15 04:00:03 UTC
- Severity:
- normal
Dear Maintainer,
Xorg refuses to work on my Thinkpad X201s nowadays, tho it used to work just
fine a year or so ago. Wayland still works fine.
The observed behavior is that when GDM3 starts up (using Xorg because
I have set `WaylandEnable=false` in its config file) at the end of the
boot process, the screen becomes black and remains so.
I can use the keyboard to suspend and resume the machine, but I'm flying blind.
The same happens if I start Xorg "manually".
I have attached the corresponding Xorg.0.log from
/var/lib/gdm3/.local/share/xorg/ (which is very similar to the log
I see below, tho not quite identical because it's more recent).
Stefan
I found a workaround.
If I create a file `/etc/X11/xorg.conf` with the following contents:
% cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# Workaround for Debian bug#1005359.
Section "Device"
Identifier "modesetting"
Driver "modesetting"
Option "UseGammaLUT" "false"
EndSection
%
then the Xorg server comes up fine.
As the comment indicate, I took this workaround from bug#1005359, so
maybe the two bugs should be merged.
(I hadn't tried this earlier since I presumed that the hardware was
sufficiently different between my X201s and my Librem mini that the
bugs would also be different).
Stefan
I found a workaround.
If I create a file `/etc/X11/xorg.conf` with the following contents:
% cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# Workaround for Debian bug#1005359.
Section "Device"
Identifier "modesetting"
Driver "modesetting"
Option "UseGammaLUT" "false"
EndSection
%
then the Xorg server comes up fine.
As the comment indicate, I took this workaround from bug#1005359, so
maybe the two bugs should be merged.
(I hadn't tried this earlier since I presumed that the hardware was
sufficiently different between my X201s and my Librem mini that the
bugs would also be different).
Stefan