Laptop update...

[Ben Laurie]

Robert Watson wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Ben Laurie wrote:
> 
> 
>>so, where does this leave me? Well, the display still dies if I am in X
>>and the screen times out - I can reboot blind, but I can't get the
>>screen back - am I missing a trick? 
> 
> 
> When you wake the box up again, try switching to another virtual console
> and back again, and/or changing the display resolution using
> ctrl-alt-[keypad + or -].

I've done that - it stays dark (though I _think_ I know that the console
switch has worked, coz ctl-alt-del causes a clean reboot).

>  I've noticed similar things with my Dell
> notebook, and seem to recall a discussion of this issue previously.
> Basically, when things wake up, some piece of something forgets to power
> the backlight back on again.  There may have been a kernel option floating
> around to deal with this, but it's worth a try to see if that can kick
> things into action.  If your notebook supports a CRT/LCD function key, you
> could try fiddling that a few times to see if it jogs things back to life. 

I'll try that.

> Killing and restarting X might also do it?

That's a little tricky blind!

Cheers,

Ben.

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