Bug 593960 – xfce-base/xfce4-settings-4.12.1: power cycling the monitor disables the HDMI output

• Status: UNCONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description fff 2016-09-16 11:36:03 UTC]

Power cycling the monitor disables the HDMI output and a Xorg restart is required each time I switch on/off the monitor. 

This bug was present in 4.12.0 and the current patch (https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/xfce-base/xfce4-settings/files/xfce4-settings-4.12.0-HDMI-power-cycling.patch) was neccesary to make it work.

The patch was omitted in 4.12.1 and the bug is present now. It needs be applied also to this version.

[Comment 1 Jason Zaman 2016-09-22 17:39:37 UTC]

That bug is already fixed in this commit tho?

https://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/commit/?id=2233f20a7ec6d7cb7dcc5752d62d98e37d9c21ad

This bug is where the original patch came from and where the better one was posted later. 
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11107

[Comment 2 fff 2016-09-27 15:56:19 UTC]

For my computer the bug is again here, and manually applying the patch file to 4.12.1 makes it work again (not black screen after poweroff the monitor). I am going to open a bug report with the xfce people.

[Comment 3 Jason Zaman 2016-09-30 10:31:06 UTC]

(In reply to fff from comment #2)
> I am going to open a bug report with the xfce people.

Awesome, thanks! Can you link to the xfce bugzilla when you've filed it so we can track it here too?

[Comment 4 fff 2016-10-04 10:03:30 UTC]

https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12880

[Comment 5 Jason Zaman 2016-10-04 12:47:45 UTC]

thanks! in the mean time you can put the patch in /etc/portage/patches/ to get it applied on your machine.