On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 4:15 AM, Scott Gates <[email protected]> wrote: > I've installed SL 6.6 on an Dell Inspiron 1420 laptop. upgraded from an > > earlier version. > > However I'm having problems with the display suddenly. > > It's REALLY dark. Nearly unviewable. I've tested with Gnome and KDE. I've > turned it all the way up in the BIOS, and it's fine when in BIOS mode, or > just before SL starts to load. > > I've tried reinstalling. Same thing. Running from a live instance on a > thumb drive. Just as dark. If I use another distro, the video is fine. > I may be wrong, but I think there is something wrong with the video > driver.
You may have the "backlight" issue. (Un)related ticket which contains hints for that: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753012 > Open to suggestions. If anyone
