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Re: X session turns white after display is turned back on
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> wrote:
> On 06/03/2011 14:06, Natarajan Murugaiyan wrote:
>> I am using cygwin on a Dell windows 7 laptop, running X windows
>> through startx command with fvwm2 window manager.
>>
>> The laptop display gets turned off after a period of inactivity. When
>> I log back in, the X
>> session and all clients inside ?it are white. I have no problems with
>> the X session prior
>> to when display got turned off.
>>
>>
>> tail of /var/log/Xwin/XWin.0.log:
>> ? ? [ 19432.919] winClipboardProc - XOpenDisplay () returned and
>> successfully opened the display.
>> ? ? [ 19506.037] winWindowProc - WM_DISPLAYCHANGE - new width: 0 new
>> height: 0 new bpp: 0
>> ? ? [ 19603.148] winWindowProc - WM_DISPLAYCHANGE - new width: 0 new
>> height: 0 new bpp: 0
>> ? ? [ 19682.599] winWindowProc - WM_DISPLAYCHANGE - new width: 0 new
>> height: 0 new bpp: 0
>> ? ? [ 19682.599] winCreatePrimarySurfaceShadowDDNL - Could not create
>> primary surface: 8876024e
>
> This is DDERR_UNSUPPORTEDMODE, which doesn't make a great deal of sense.
>
> I'd suggest the first thing you try is updating the Windows display drivers.
>
Went into Device Manager and tried to update device drivers for
Display Adapters / Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family
Monitors / Generic PnP Monitor
and got response that
The best driver software for your device is already installed
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