Somewhere in HAL or ACPI there lives a bug that bites my T42 laptop.
The box goes into suspend mode. The screen goes black. (Yea! no more 7x24
backlighting) The box comes out of suspend mode. The screen remains black.
Worse something gets poked into NVRAM and after a reboot the screen remains
black.
Fortunately, an external monitor continues to work.
Fortunately, there are suggestions at
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_display_remaining_black_after_resume#Solution_for_ThinkPads_with_ATI_graphic_chips_and_Intel_915.2F945GM
and
http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/
that restore the laptop screen.
Now if I'd only taken better notes when poking and prodding the system...
Anyway, if your laptop screen goes and stays black, it's a known problem with
solutions.
Not restricted to Jaunty by the way, multiple distros and versions are
affected. Jaunty was just my first encounter with the issue.
--
Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon
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