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giuliof

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From: Italy

Registered: 2012-07-17

Posts: 15

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Missing fonts after wake up from suspension

Hello
Sometimes, when I wake up my laptop (Asus K56CM) from suspension I can't see anything in the windows, because all the fonts disappear.
I post an image to explain better what I mean.
http://box.glgprograms.it/users/giulio/ … r-font.jpg

I tried to change font, and it works fine until the next suspension and wake up.
This problem does not occur everytime, but only sometimes, and rebooting fonts turns again visible.

Actually I have:
- XFCE4 with xfwm4 4.12.3-1
- Xorg 1.18.1-3
- Linux Kernel 4.4.3-1
- an Intel video card with xf86-video-intel 1:2.99.917+560+gd167280-1
- a secondary Nvidia Geforce GT 635M which should be turned off by bbswitch

I tried Cantarell, DejaVu Sans, Nimbus Sans and Ubuntu fonts.

Thank you for help

bbbart

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2016-03-14

Posts: 16

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Re: Missing fonts after wake up from suspension

I have the same issue since a few weeks with
- awesome (3.5.9-1)
- Xorg (1.18.1-3)
- linux-zen (4.4.3-1)
- xf86-video-intel (1:2.99.917+560+gd167280-1)

Also most (up to 99%) of the characters in my urxvt terminals go missing. Even the text on the text consoles is gone, but in X I can solve it by killing X and (blindly) logging in again in console and starting X from there.

Last edited by bbbart (2016-03-14 10:49:40)

Nekroman

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Registered: 2011-10-02

Posts: 51

Re: Missing fonts after wake up from suspension

Try creating this file:

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf

And add this into it:

Section "Device"
   Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
   Driver      "intel"
   Option      "AccelMethod"  "uxa"
EndSection

bbbart

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2016-03-14

Posts: 16

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Re: Missing fonts after wake up from suspension

great. I'll try it and see if the problem gets resolved. Meanwhile, I read on the wiki that this indeed could be the solution.

thanks!

bbbart

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2016-03-14

Posts: 16

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Re: Missing fonts after wake up from suspension

it seems to work. after resuming earlier today, a lot of text was gone again, but after opening a new terminal (or perhaps it was simply after a few seconds, I don't know exactly what triggered it), all text returned.

don't know if it's because of the acceleration method, but at least things seems to be resolved for me at this point.

thanks!

serh

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Registered: 2011-08-16

Posts: 20

Re: Missing fonts after wake up from suspension

Didn't work for me. Font still gone after wakeup, even with the config file in place.

- xf86-video-intel 1:2.99.917+560+gd167280-1
- StumpWM 0.9.8
- Xorg 1.18.1-3
- Linux 4.4.5-1

EDIT: Never mind, looks like it helped, but I had to reboot twice. Did anybody file a bug report yet?

Last edited by serh (2016-03-18 16:12:06)

catalin.hritcu

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From: Paris, France

Registered: 2014-04-27

Posts: 26

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Re: Missing fonts after wake up from suspension

Same problem here since yesterday on a Lenovo T440p with Intel graphics card (and Nvidia card turned off at boot) and with

mate-desktop 1.12.1-1
xf86-video-intel 1:2.99.917+560+gd167280-1
xorg-server 1.18.1-3
linux 4.4.5-1

This got so bad that I couldn't read anything and had to hard reboot. I'll try the 20-intel.conf idea on the next reboot.

{Added: forget about this last part. Looking at what the others write, they are having problems with linux 4.4.3-1 too}

Looking at the recent package updates that could have broken this, the most suspicious one I could find is this:

[2016-03-11 08:46] [ALPM] upgraded linux (4.4.3-1 -> 4.4.5-1)

So I might also try downgrading the kernel ... again on next reboot.

Last edited by catalin.hritcu (2016-03-18 09:39:07)

xgdgsc

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Registered: 2012-02-03

Posts: 125

Re: Missing fonts after wake up from suspension

Seems downgrading xf86-video-intel (1:2.99.917+560+gd167280-1 -> 1:2.99.917+552+ge41040f-1)  fixes this for me.

Last edited by xgdgsc (2016-03-19 02:54:01)