Rotating the screen with xrandr also gives me a black screen with working mouse cursor.
The problem goes away when I set AccelMethod to UXA (the default is SNA), which I did by creating a file "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf" with the following contents: Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "intel" Option "AccelMethod" "uxa" EndSection -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1417320 Title: Screen turns black (only mouse cursor left) when rotating screen To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/1417320/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs