[Desktop-packages] [Bug 797537] Re: Natty 11.04 Gateway NV79 BACKLIGHT TURNED OFF DURING BOOT

2013-11-27 Thread Daudi Amani
Same bug still exists. Am doing a fresh install of Saucy 13.10 on Gateway NV79, but the install CD won't turn on the laptop display LCD backlight. There is no way to provide further information since I cannot directly install the 13.10 from CD image. Even if I attach an external monitor, the

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 797537] Re: Natty 11.04 Gateway NV79 BACKLIGHT TURNED OFF DURING BOOT

2013-11-27 Thread Daudi Amani
Additional information: Once 13.10 is installed, it still boots to an off backlight; BUT I can use the laptop screen brightness keys to increase backlight power and see the screen, although it is somewhat washed out. Each time the laptop is restarted, however, the setting is lost and it boots

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 797537] Re: Natty 11.04 Gateway NV79 BACKLIGHT TURNED OFF DURING BOOT

2013-11-27 Thread Daudi Amani
Additional information 2: using the screen brightness keys only works After SIGNING in, not before. closing and opening the laptop cover (prior to signing in) also does not turn on the backlight, permantly. It turns on briefly before ubuntu resumes after the suspend and then turns off when unity

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 797537] Re: Natty 11.04 Gateway NV79 BACKLIGHT TURNED OFF DURING BOOT

2013-11-27 Thread Daudi Amani
Additional information 3: work around for having backlight turned on after boot: add the following to the grub: acpi_backlight=vendor -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu.