[mythtv-users] Screen Goes Blank on Standby, Then Never Wakes Up

[Jay Foster]

On 9/30/2014 10:12 PM, faginbagin wrote:
> On 9/30/2014 1:55 PM, Paul Raison wrote:
>> On 30 Sep 2014, at 04:12, Tom Wheeler <tomwheel at gmail.com
>> <mailto:tomwheel at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>> Unfortunately, I discovered tonight that setting the resolution
>>> explicitly did not fix it after all, nor did updating the NVidia
>>> driver to the latest version.
>> It would seem that Mikes solution of disabling xfcesettingsd from
>> autostart fixes the problem. At least with mine tonight was ok, so
>> fingers crossed.
> Anyone who has hit this problem might want to log into launchpad.net and say the following bug affects them:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/xfce4-settings/+bug/1308105
> If enough people do that, maybe we'll get a fix before 16.04 is released.
>
> This and the fact that shutdown and reboot from mythfrontend don't work "out of the box" are my favorite reasons for NOT upgrading from 12.04 to 14.04. I'm only using 14.04 on a new computer.
>
> Regards,
> Helen
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I read many of the entries at the link you provided above.  All of the 
reports seem to be for monitors connected via HDMI.  Does the problem 
affect monitors connected via VGA?  If not, then I will stick with using 
VGA on my new MythTV system build (mythbuntu 14.04.1).
Jay