On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 03:11:56PM +0100, Luis Sequeira wrote: : : My wife's Wallstreet (233MHz, 384MB, 20GB, OS X 10.2.6) : has developed a problem, in that everytime it starts up or wakes from : sleep the screen is very dark (its contents being almost invisible). : : The grey screen with tbe big Apple logo looks fine, but after that it : is like the brightness was turned all the way down. Pressing the : brightness button usually brings it back to normal, but it is a : nuisance and it does not work when waking from sleep (we have to : restart the machine). : : I remember seeing mention of something like this in some newer models : (Lombards or Pismos, maybe) and the solution seemed to involve : booting into open firmware, which, afaik, is not present in the : wallstreet (being an "old world rom" mac). : : I wonder if there is some preference file gone awry that I should : trash or some other solution (perhaps involving booting into OS 9) : that the knowledgeable people on this list may care to suggest.
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