On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 23:11 -0600, Fred James wrote: > 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
It's not hibernate -- this is just turning the backlight off, but the computer is still running in the background. I've _never_ gotten either suspend or hibernate to work on that machine. -- Tim Wescott www.wescottdesign.com Control & Communications systems, circuit & software design. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug