Tim Wescott wrote: > I just upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu 11.10, and whenever I close the lid > the backlight goes off. > > That would be a good thing, except that when I open the lid the backlight > does not come on. This is new with Ubuntu 11.10. > > I've found some web pages that relate similar symptoms with Linux and > various other laptops, but the diagnosed root causes seem to be all over > the map, and none of the suggested work-arounds seem to work around the > problem for me, except for setting 'nomodeset' in grub which messes up my > screen aspect ratio. > > Anyone have any suggestions? > Tim Wescott That is "hibernate", isn't it? ... close the lid and the box goes into hibernate mode until opened again? Sometimes there is a hibernate button as well ... sometimes called sleep? Well, I am not going to be much help ... sorry ... when I had laptops (Red Hat or Mandriva/Mandrake), hibernate never worked for me either. I should be interested to hear (and to hear how) if anyone has ever gotten that to work in Linux. At one time Red Hat had a laptop specific install ... hibernate may have worked in that, but I didn't have a laptop at that point, and the laptop install (as I remember) would not had suited my needs anyway. I think Mandrake once supported laptop install as well. Sorry Regards Fred James
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