MX Linux, Xfce 4.18

Closing the laptop lid suspends the system, opening it resumes it, but the screen is black. I’m guessing it’s related to powerup because suspending through the logout menu and systemctl suspend both work as expected. When it’s black, switching to a different tty works, as well as C-M-Backspace to logout.

Same results with both lightdm and sddm, when replacing suspend with hibernate, and I’ve tried a few solutions like disabling lock on sleep.

Seems like this issue has been around for years, but had a whole bunch of different causes since every other thread has a different solution.

XFSETTINGSD_DEBUG=1 xfsettingsd --replace --no-daemon > /tmp/xf.log 2>&1

ps -ef | grep -E ‘screen|lock’

xfconf-query -c xfce4-power-manager -lv

dmesg, cleared it before trying to suspend

updates:

I’m not seeing a black screen, instead it turns on the display and then turns it off.

Additionally, I tried closing and opening the lid a few times, and it woke up correctly.

I tried it in i3wm with the xfce power manager to suspend after closing the lid. It woke up correctly 10 times in a row.

Solution: start an xrandr config and the monitor turns back on.

  • @ShareniOP
    1•13 days ago

    That’s just the computers fucking with you. It’s how it always happens 😉

    Oh I know, just complaining

    sudo dmesg | grep -E "S3|suspend"

    [ 7225.917778] PM: suspend entry (deep)
[ 7226.596293] printk: Suspending console(s) (use no_console_suspend to debug)
[ 7230.132960] ACPI: PM: Preparing to enter system sleep state S3
[ 7230.178542] ACPI: PM: Waking up from system sleep state S3
[ 7233.500089] PM: suspend exit

    cat /sys/power/mem_sleep gives me: s2idle [deep]