XFCE 17.2 Constantly crashing to login page.

[CIMc]

I upgraded to 17.2 XFCE recently and have had troubles ever since.
For whatever reason the screen goes blank and reappears at the login in screen.
This happens randomly. I've stopped screensaver and the power options in the hope that might solve the problem but nothing works.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers Col.

[Pjotr]

Please generate an overview of your system like this:
- Launch a terminal window (this is how to launch a terminal window);
- make the terminal window full screen, to avoid chopped lines;
- copy/paste this command into the terminal:

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inxi -Fxz

(if you type: the letter F is a capital letter)

Press Enter.

Copy/paste the output in your next message.

[Ron-N]

I upgraded to 17.2 XFCE recently and have had troubles ever since.
For whatever reason the screen goes blank and reappears at the login in screen.

It's not only Xfce. I'm dealing with the same issue with my laptop running Mint 17.2 (64-bit) + Cinnamon.

[CIMc]

I found a solution.
I had nVidia driver 340.x installed as per recommendation.
I reverted back to ver 304.x and it solved the problem.
Cheers.

[Pjotr]

I found a solution.
I had nVidia driver 340.x installed as per recommendation.
I reverted back to ver 304.x and it solved the problem.
Cheers.

Good! For old video cards, sometimes an older driver works better.

[Ron-N]

Can't say my card is old. My laptop is not even a year old. I thought i was using the 349 Nvidia driver... have to check this.

Makes no sense to me that a (simple/stupid) graphic card driver is the fault of all this....????

See my post: http://forum.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=203651

[CIMc]

I've had trouble with Mint and nVidia drivers pretty well from the beginning. So I have some experience with it.

The clue this time was that after the system logged in again, I couldn't type any thing.

Keyboard and mouse probs are related to vid drivers. I have found.
Even though dvr 340.x was recommended, going back to 304.x solved the prob.

[Ron-N]

These are my GPU's:

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Graphics:  Card-1: Intel 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0
           Card-2: NVIDIA GM107M [GeForce GTX 860M] bus-ID: 01:00.0
           Display Server: X.Org 1.15.1 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1920x1080@60.0hz
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Haswell Mobile GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.6.3 Direct Rendering: Yes

It's a hybrid laptop running with the Intel GPU most of the time.