On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I have a fresh install of Gentoo on my laptop and I'm having some >> trouble with the backlight that I think is related to the screen going >> into some sort of power save mode or something along those lines. Are >> there power management settings somewhere or something similar? I'm >> on xfce4. >> >> - Grant > > I found another clue. It happens whenever I shut my laptop screen, > even for a moment. Is this some kind of sleep mode? Might I be able > to disable it in the kernel somewhere? > > - Grant >
I had that same issue with closing the screen. I think my solution was a KDE setting which won't help you unless there is something similar with XFCE. I'll boot the laptop and see if I Can spot what I did. Ah the things we have time for when watching Hulu on a Sunday morning... ;-) Back later, Mark