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 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. Killing and restarting X might also do it? Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert_at_fledge.watson.org Network Associates LaboratoriesReceived on Sun Apr 20 2003 - 14:09:05 UTC
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