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. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert WoodruffReceived on Mon Apr 21 2003 - 03:03:39 UTC
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