I have installed Ubuntu on a PIPO X10 Pro tablet. It's a simple tablet running Intel x5-Z8350 with a DSI screen.
After booting, the display turns completely black. I am able to SSH into the machine, and try all sorts of commands to manipulate the display. I've been searching for a way to detect that the screen is black - and then force it to reboot again (which is a sucky solution).
I have no idea what's wrong. I can say that the device is using UEFI. In BIOS I have restored defaults.
dmesg|grep -i vga
[ 0.394916] vgaarb: setting as boot device: PCI:0000:00:02.0
[ 0.394933] vgaarb: device added: PCI:0000:00:02.0,decodes=io+mem,owns=io+mem,locks=none
[ 0.394951] vgaarb: loaded
[ 0.394960] vgaarb: bridge control possible 0000:00:02.0
[ 1.870261] fb0: EFI VGA frame buffer device
[ 3.018244] fb: switching to inteldrmfb from EFI VGA
[ 3.022697] [drm] Replacing VGA console driver
[ 3.099731] vgaarb: device changed decodes: PCI:0000:00:02.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=io+mem:owns=io+mem
xrandr
This shows the same, regardless if the screen is working or not.
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1920 x 1280, maximum 32767 x 32767
DSI1 connected 1920x1280+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
1920x1280 60.00*+
DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
VIRTUAL1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
Tried so far
.xinitrc
I have put these in ~/.xinitrc
- xset s off -dpms
- xset s noblank
- xset dpms force on; xset s reset
- xset dpms 0 0 0
- xrandr --output DSI1 --off; sleep 1; xrandr --output DSI1 --auto
Open TTY 2..6
If I open TTY 2 (Ctrl+Alt+F2) while booting, it seems the screen stays on when X starts on TTY 1.
If I don't open TTY 2 until after X has blanked my screen, the other TTYs are also black.
When I press Caps-Lock on TTY 1, while screen is blank - the LED on my keyboard changes.
When I switch to TTY 2, the Caps-Lock button does not seem to work. It works again when I switch back to TTY 1 - but the screen is still black.
reboot
command. I can log into the console. It seems Xorg.0.log is from earlier today - I don't know why it is not updating. The screen is ON while booting. It turns off when X starts.