Connecting/Disconnecting/Switching HDMI screens = static black screen

Utini · 2015-10-11 19:53:31

Today I hooked up my arch laptop to my xbox one via hdmi for the first time. That way I can use my TV as external screen through HDMI (the xbox one is just a pass through).
I encountered several problems with XFCE:

Mirroring doesn't work.
- When the screen pops up which lets you choose between which display or extend or mirror, then mirror is grey and can't be selcted.
- Within the display settings I can enable mirroring but it will only mirror on the external screen in a very low resolution which makes it unusable.

When choosing the external display as only active screen I encountered black screens twice which made me hard reset my laptop.
- The first time it simply lost the signal of the external display and then both displays were black.
- The second time was when I simply disconnected the external display by removing the HDMI cable from my laptop. Then my laptops screen stayed black, making it unusable = hard reset.

Is this a known bug? Is there any fix for this? I will hook up my laptop to external devices quite often (TV at home, beamer at work) so I really need this to work

Thanks !

Arch Linux

#1 2015-10-11 19:53:31

Connecting/Disconnecting/Switching HDMI screens = static black screen

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