I had earlier marked the OP as "[Resolved]" believing it fell under the case of 'one of those things which sometimes happens'. I have removed that as I appear to have found a consistent means to invoke the behaviour described.
My desktop is rendered unusable, in that an attached monitor cannot be brought out of being blanked by wiggling the mouse, once a Pico has presented in BOOTSEL mode with the screen blanked.
The monitor remains blanked and the monitor cannot be brought out of being blanked, even if the Pico is removed and reconnected, is no longer in BOOTSEL mode.
At least not immediately. I did encounter the issue and then found the monitor could be brought out being blanked some time later. I have now repeated that experience. I have not determined how long one has to wait beyond "a number of minutes", what the conditions are for allowing the monitor to be un-blanked, or if it is always the case that it eventually becomes possible to take the monitor out of blanked mode. I will do some timed testing later, when I have the time to do that.
I discovered this behaviour when testing a report that the BOOTSEL disk wasn't mounted and could not be accessed when a Pico was placed in BOOTSEL mode which noted that had produced a prompt on the desktop. Not being mounted is not a problem I have, but it locked the display which was blanked whilst I was testing. I can't find that post so can't give credit. Nor tell the poster that the desktop prompt is benign for me, doesn't prevent mounting. It may be they were expecting the mount to be in '/mnt' rather than in '/media'.
My desktop is rendered unusable, in that an attached monitor cannot be brought out of being blanked by wiggling the mouse, once a Pico has presented in BOOTSEL mode with the screen blanked.
The monitor remains blanked and the monitor cannot be brought out of being blanked, even if the Pico is removed and reconnected, is no longer in BOOTSEL mode.
At least not immediately. I did encounter the issue and then found the monitor could be brought out being blanked some time later. I have now repeated that experience. I have not determined how long one has to wait beyond "a number of minutes", what the conditions are for allowing the monitor to be un-blanked, or if it is always the case that it eventually becomes possible to take the monitor out of blanked mode. I will do some timed testing later, when I have the time to do that.
I discovered this behaviour when testing a report that the BOOTSEL disk wasn't mounted and could not be accessed when a Pico was placed in BOOTSEL mode which noted that had produced a prompt on the desktop. Not being mounted is not a problem I have, but it locked the display which was blanked whilst I was testing. I can't find that post so can't give credit. Nor tell the poster that the desktop prompt is benign for me, doesn't prevent mounting. It may be they were expecting the mount to be in '/mnt' rather than in '/media'.
Statistics: Posted by hippy — Mon Sep 16, 2024 2:47 am