On 2/18/06, Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Berg wrote: > > > My current problem is the backlight. Running `xset dpms force off` > > works just fine and the system wakes up with no problem. The problem > > is with a lid event the backlight goes off (though the screen doesn't > > blank) and I haven't been able to get it to come back on with out > > rebooting. This happens whether the acpi script is empty or contains > > the `xset dpms force off` command. > > What version of acpi-support do you have? With a recent upgrade to 0.57 > (and still w/ 0.58) lid events stopped turning mine on, too. I had to add > a "vbetool post" command to lid.sh. Be warned, vbetool _can_ be hazardous > to your system, but it works for me: >
vbetool post did turn off the backlight and it came back on when run from a prompt. But, following a lid event the same command did not turn the backlight back on. Also, turning off X, and creating a lid event while on a text console produces the same results. I believe I remember a binary driver for the graphics being among the installed packages for ubuntu. Perhaps I can find that package and that will help. --Dave
