I can confirm this, unfortunately on exactly the same laptop (5920G) with same 8600M-GT videocard (coicidence?) The problem occurred after installing a massive amount of updates on september 4rd.
One workaround is pressing ctr+altl+F1 and then back ctrl+alt+F7, that cures it for me. -- Gutsy's gnome-power-manager shuts off LCD backlight after login https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/137133 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
