dual screen turn off after inactivity problem

Bug #1418747 reported by Yionel
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

With dual screen on my e6420 Dell laptop, when screens turn off after inactivity, main screen flashes and second screen becomes black with message "no signal"
After that, I can't use computer, I can suspend/restart it to retrieve normal mode (quickly method)

Ubuntu 14.10 (bug is already on 14.04)
Graphic card drivers : nvidia proprietary 331.113 (tested)

$ uname -a
Linux e6420 3.16.0-23-generic #31-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 21 17:56:17 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

"Brightness & Lock" settings
 Dim screen to save power is not checked
 Turn screen of when inactive for 5 mns
 Lock off
 Require my password when waking from suspend is not checked

"Power" settings
 Don't suspend when inactive

Yionel (yionel)
affects: xubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) → gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu)
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Yionel (yionel)
tags: added: screen
tags: added: black dual flash inactivity
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