Notebok opening & enter password doesn't resume screen

[Planorez]

I recently installed LM 19.3 Tricia XFCE 32 bit on an old Dell laptop. When I close it running and open it, put in the password, the screen is black with the cursor. The same thing happens if it has been sitting, times out, and requires a password to resume. Black screen with cursor. The only way I've found to resume work is kill the power and reboot. In the XFCE forum, someone came up with a script to fix a 64 bit XFCE version but I couldn't get it to work on this 32 bit version. Anyone with ideas?
Thanks

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What issue did the script address?

Please give us information about your install by entering this command in a terminal: inxi -Fxxxrz
Click </> from the mini toolbar above the textbox where you type your reply and then place your cursor between the code markers and paste the results of the command between the code markers [code]Results[/code]. This will let us know how Mint sees your hardware.

[Planorez]

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user@user-MM061:~$ inxi -Fxxxrz
System:
  Host: user-MM061 Kernel: 5.4.0-72-generic i686 bits: 32 compiler: gcc 
  v: 7.5.0 Desktop: Xfce 4.14.1 tk: Gtk 3.22.30 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 
  dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia 
  base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic 
Machine:
  Type: Portable System: Dell product: MM061 v: N/A serial: <filter> 
  Chassis: type: 8 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Dell model: 0KD882 serial: <filter> BIOS: Dell v: A12 
  date: 12/18/2006 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 45.9 Wh condition: 45.9/53.3 Wh (86%) volts: 12.5/11.1 
  model: Sanyo DELLUD2646 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: Full 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel T2250 bits: 32 type: MCP arch: M Yonah 
  rev: 8 L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
  flags: nx pae sse sse2 sse3 bogomips: 6915 
  Speed: 798 MHz min/max: 800/1733 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 798 2: 798 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Mobile 945GM/GMS 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics 
  vendor: Dell driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:27a2 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: intel 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1280x800~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945GM x86/MMX/SSE2 v: 1.4 Mesa 20.0.8 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio vendor: Dell 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:27d8 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-72-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Broadcom and subsidiaries BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX 
  vendor: Dell Inspiron 6400 driver: b44 v: 2.0 port: 10c0 bus ID: 03:00.0 
  chip ID: 14e4:170c 
  Device-2: Broadcom and subsidiaries BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN 
  vendor: Dell Wireless 1390 driver: b43-pci-bridge v: N/A port: 10c0 
  bus ID: 0b:00.0 chip ID: 14e4:4311 
  Device-3: Ralink MT7601U Wireless Adapter type: USB driver: mt7601u 
  bus ID: 1-3:3 chip ID: 148f:7601 serial: <filter> 
  IF: wlxc83a35c213b6 state: up mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-1: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 82.03 GiB used: 8.66 GiB (10.6%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HTS541680J9SA00 size: 74.53 GiB 
  speed: <unknown> serial: <filter> rev: C74P scheme: MBR 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB model: SMI USB DISK size: 7.50 GiB 
  serial: <filter> rev: 1100 scheme: MBR 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 72.86 GiB used: 8.66 GiB (11.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 37.0 C mobo: N/A sodimm: 47.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2387 
Repos:
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
  1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com tricia main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main
  2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic main restricted universe multiverse
  3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates main restricted universe multiverse
  4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports main restricted universe multiverse
  5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-security main restricted universe multiverse
  6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ bionic partner
Info:
  Processes: 163 Uptime: 33m Memory: 987.4 MiB used: 456.8 MiB (46.3%) 
  Init: systemd v: 237 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 7.5.0 alt: 7 Shell: bash 
  v: 4.4.20 running in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.0.32 
user@user-MM061:~$ 

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Other than the fact your computer runs on the older Intel display driver, nothing catches my eye with your data. Often, the blinking cursor is related to graphics driver. I do not know if that is the case in your situation.

It is possible there might be an interaction between the screensaver and the power management, but I am not familiar with how that works in Xfce.

If the last boot was one which ended with you pressing the power button to restart, run the following command in a terminal:
journalctl -rb -1 | nc termbin.com 9999
That command prints the journal log information of the prior boot cycle (the one which you stopped with the power button) in reverse order (so the reason for the problem should be near the top) and sends it to termbin. It will return with a url address that you should post in your next reply if you would like others to help you review it.