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Kodi Log - https://paste.ee/p/ITM3F
Xorg Log - https://paste.ee/p/JCzO3
Syslog - https://paste.ee/p/1UQVl

Laptop Specs - i7 mobile quad, 8gb of ram, intel hd 4400 gpu
Kodi version - 18.0-Alpha3 Git:20180731-269a24c

I've had this happen 3 times in the last half hour or so (current log is after a restart as I forgot to have logging enabled properly.) This is Leia on Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS under Virtualbox.

The screen is blacking out. I move the mouse or hit the keyboard and it comes back. The screensaver and power saving are all disabled. I have the same problem on bare metal, hence why I've virtualized it. Need it to work before I put it on my main htpc. I looked through all the logs and found nothing relating to screen power. Even the Xorg log is useless. Posting them just the same. I think this is power saving. The symptom I have on bare metal is Kodi disappears, the tv says no signal on hdmi1. I haven't tried with a keyboard to bring it back, I know the Kore app on my phone won't wake it up though.

I know you guys don't mess with power saving. I've seen it said many times on the forums that it is external. But this only happens with Leia. I have a fully functioning system on Krypton with no display problems of any kind. It is always available for me to  start using. Never "disconnects" itself, or whatever is happening here.

Marking as solved. I don't know what Leia does differently, or maybe the setting isn't being applied for power saving. Here is how I solved this issue.

Using lightdm, autologin to openbox. Autostarting Kodi from openbox. This gives a fully supported configuration. Already had this so the fix was a breeze.


Not sure if the sleep is required. I put it to make sure Kodi was fully loaded before firing the xset. I left my virtual machine idling on my laptop while I went shopping for groceries. It was still up and ready to use when I got back. Never blacked out. Trying bare metal next.