Ubuntu 20.04: display wrong after recovering from suspend mode

Asked by Claudio Peretti

after recovering from suspend mode, the display lose its colour and starts flickering and is quite unreadable, being very luminous. After restarting the PC, everything OK

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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Does the system have a make and model?
Do you have the latest BIOS?

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Claudio Peretti (clauperetti) said :
#2

here is my hardware configuration:
claudio@claudio-Aspire-M5910:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 12)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor PCI Express x16 Root Port (rev 12)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 06)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 06)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev 06)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev a6)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation H57 Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation SATA Controller [RAID mode] (rev 06)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 06)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT215 [GeForce GT 320] (rev a2)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 06)
ff:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02)
ff:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02)
ff:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 1st Generation Core i3/5/7 Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 1st Generation Core i3/5/7 Processor Reserved (rev 02)
ff:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 1st Generation Core i3/5/7 Processor Reserved (rev 02)
claudio@claudio-Aspire-M5910:~$

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#3

OK the question is tricky for you. What is the output of:

sudo dmidecode -t 1

Thanks

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Claudio Peretti (clauperetti) said :
#4

BIOS Information
 Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
 Version: P01-A4
 Release Date: 02/15/2011
 Address: 0xF0000
 Runtime Size: 64 kB
 ROM Size: 1024 kB
 Characteristics:
  ISA is supported
  PCI is supported
  PNP is supported
  APM is supported
  BIOS is upgradeable
  BIOS shadowing is allowed
  ESCD support is available
  Boot from CD is supported
  Selectable boot is supported
  BIOS ROM is socketed
  EDD is supported
  5.25"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
  3.5"/720 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
  3.5"/2.88 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
  Print screen service is supported (int 5h)
  8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)
  Serial services are supported (int 14h)
  Printer services are supported (int 17h)
  CGA/mono video services are supported (int 10h)
  ACPI is supported
  USB legacy is supported
  LS-120 boot is supported
  ATAPI Zip drive boot is supported
  BIOS boot specification is supported
  Targeted content distribution is supported
 BIOS Revision: 8.15

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Claudio Peretti (clauperetti) said :
#5

laudio@claudio-Aspire-M5910:~$ sudo dmidecode -t 1
# dmidecode 3.2
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
SMBIOS 2.6 present.

Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
 Manufacturer: Acer
 Product Name: Aspire M5910
 Version:
 Serial Number: PTSDWE2153034016B72700
 UUID: cdfc8744-2209-1020-0824-015816000000
 Wake-up Type: Power Switch
 SKU Number: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
 Family: Acer Desktop

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Claudio Peretti (clauperetti) said :
#6

I put again the PC in suspend mode and, after recovering, the screen is
as shown in the attached file

Il 16/05/20 10:21, actionparsnip ha scritto:
> Your question #690755 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/690755
>
> Status: Open => Needs information
>
> actionparsnip requested more information:
> OK the question is tricky for you. What is the output of:
>
> sudo dmidecode -t 1
>
> Thanks
>

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#7

Replying to the automated email and attaching a file doesn't work. You need to use something like imageshack to host the image and post a URL as an update

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Claudio Peretti (clauperetti) said :
#8

OK, you are right, here is the link to the "printscreen"
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1btonIBUAl02mIwxzR22rH8xHGUumWJaI
I hope you can access it
In any case I just wanted to inform you that the problem happens everytime I recover from suspend mode

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#9

https://www.acer.com/ac/en/ID/content/support-product/2218;-;

Seems to be an older system. Latest BIOS is May 2011. Do you have this installed?

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Claudio Peretti (clauperetti) said :
#10

BIOS Information
 Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
 Version: P01-A4
 Release Date: 02/15/2011
 Address: 0xF0000
 Runtime Size: 64 kB
 ROM Size: 1024 k

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Claudio Peretti (clauperetti) said :
#11

Another information that may be useful to solve the problem.
1. Whichever is the way I put the system in suspend mode, i.e. after a programmed time or with the power switch, after recovering in normal mode, the display is always damaged.
2. but if I rightclick the display in an empty space and I check the "change background" instruction, it accepts a good one, but not the previous, that is the standard Ubuntu 20.04.
3. After the dispaly is again a good one, I can change it again and resume the original one.
I hope this can help you, wizards of Ubuntu,
Thanks for the attention.
Claudio

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said :
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This question was expired because it remained in the 'Open' state without activity for the last 15 days.

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Claudio Peretti (clauperetti) said :
#13

The problem is still there.

After recovering from suspend mode, the screen is corrupted, as shown in
this picture:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1btonIBUAl02mIwxzR22rH8xHGUumWJaI
<https://drive.google.com/open?id=1btonIBUAl02mIwxzR22rH8xHGUumWJaI>

It is possible to recover just right-clicking on the corrupted screem
and choosing another wallpaper. If the chosen one is not the same that
was corrupted, the screen will show a good picture.

After this, if the previous screen is chosen, it will come back correctly.

Il 02/06/20 10:51, Launchpad Janitor ha scritto:
> Your question #690755 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/690755
>
> Status: Open => Expired
>
> Launchpad Janitor expired the question:
> This question was expired because it remained in the 'Open' state
> without activity for the last 15 days.
>

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said :
#14

This question was expired because it remained in the 'Open' state without activity for the last 15 days.