On 09/04/2013 04:33 PM, richard.vickeryrv at gmail.com wrote: > Has anyone had the problem where the screen dims very close to black > the moment Fedora start or finishes booting after the bios has booted up? > Yes, I have a bunch of laptops with a similar issue. The fix for me was to add "video.use_bios_initial_backlight=0" to the end of the kernel cmdline.