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

[Michael Watson]

On 2/10/2014 1:21 AM, Jay Foster wrote:
> 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

Have you guys/gals tried storing the EDID information for the screen and 
forcing X to use the stored information, rather than detecting it.  
Sounds a lot like the same problem.
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Creating_and_using_edid.bin_via_xorg.conf