Blanked screen never returns

[MR]

On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 7:11 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1 November 2016 at 01:36, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Since I upgraded my home desktop to Xubuntu 16.04, and installed 16.40
> > on my laptop,
>
> You mean 16.04 for both, yes?
>
Yes.  Fat fingers.

>
> > I have noticed that when the screen is blanked (or
> > powered down), it never comes back.  Rebooting resolves this (the
> > windows solution - ugh).
>
> What happens if you switch to a text console and back?
>
> Ctrl+Alt+F1, then Alt-F7.
>
I tried that last night, but all I got was some system level output (which
I did not record), as if the system were restarting, but it never finished
and the screen went blank again.

(Thanks, too, to Joel.)
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