Can you get to the brightness settings? I've seen it before on a laptop where they get turned almost all the way down.
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 8:00 AM Markus Neteler <markus.nete...@fmach.it> wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 4:15 AM, Scott Gates <msga...@gmail.com> 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 >
