On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 15:44 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 12:20 -0700, darrell pfeifer wrote:
On my laptop at work, NV driver, when gdm starts up the backlight is turned off. If I switch to runlevel 3 and startx then the backlight remains on. Eventually, even with all the power manager and backlight settings set to 'never', the backlight turns off. I have to reboot the machine.
Ok, I do actually see no backlight with gdm, but a tty switch and back brings it back on.
I think I've seen this on one of the heads on my dual head ATI (proprietary driver) system. It's the one hooked up to DVI. I didn't realize it was only the backlight and thought it was a sync problem or something. This is on F8. Like Jesse, switch tty to vt-1 and back fixes it.
David