Blank Screen after screen lock on KDE

[samgurung]

Hi All,

I am running KDE plasma and I have a weird problem. I have set the display to go blank and the screen to lock after 10 minutes of inactivity. This works fine, however, when I try to wake it up ( moving the mouse or pressing a key on the keyboard) I get blank screen with just mouse pointer showing. I cant see the lockscreen where I can type the password. If i just type in my password and press enter it seems the screen unlocks but it still remains blank. Any clues as to what is going on? Any help will be appreciated

Thank you.

[samgurung]

I think I have solved the problem…Adding “Option” “DRI” “2” to the file stored in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf seems to have gotten rid of the issue. Here is the full contents of the file

Section "Device"
   Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
   Driver      "intel"
   Option      "DRI" "2"
   Option      "TearFree"    "true"
   Option      "AccelMethod"  "uxa"
EndSection

If the file is missing you can just make the file and add the above contents

[Fabby]

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Blank Screen after screen lock on KDE

I think I have solved the problem…Adding “Option” “DRI” “2” to the file stored in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf seems to have gotten rid of the issue. Here is the full contents of the file Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "intel" Option "DRI" "2" Option "TearFree" "true" Option "AccelMethod" "uxa" EndSection If the file is missing you can just make the file and add the above contents

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