On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Sara Fauzia <s...@archlinux.us> wrote: >> Now from time to time (≈ once a week) when I wake it up, the screen >> remains black in both X and text console. Nothing can bring it back, >> but everything else works just fine. No errors in logs either. > > I am having the same problem on my Fujitsu T900, 64-bit ArchLinux. Tried > both pm-suspend and s2ram, and while s2ram *appeared* to not cause this > problem as much, it still happened. At first I thought my screen was entirely > blank, but on closer inspection realized my screen was simply very > dim--flashing > a flashlight at the screen helped a lot. Was able to navigate to my brightness > settings, and the brightness was on max, as it was before suspend. I have the > testing repo enabled, and everything is up-to-date. I don't know if this > problem > occurred with older kernel versions on the Fujitsu, as this is a recent > install. > > Sara > >
You should try looking into vbetool. It can turn the backlight on if necessary. -- Alexander Lam
