I don't know if I'm up to the challenge of compiling my own kernels. I haven't done that since about 1.2.x sometime... And that was just to config in a driver. I'm an old PL/I & COBOL programmer, and quite 'C' challenged.
One item of note: this happens with amd_64 kernels only. Last week, I did an installation of ubuntustudio on this machine, and was pleased to discover that the LCD didn't go dim on me. But then disappointed to discover that it installed a 32 bit kernel, and gnome. So I went back to Kubuntu amd_64, then installed the ubuntustudio-audio packages (less one that's broken on amd64) So it may be that some of that vga-init code isn't 64-bit clean. There's another video bug open on this machine, but that has to do with xorg properly detecting the widescreen 1280x800 mode, and is probably unrelated to this lower-level vga bug. -- Rick Green "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -Benjamin Franklin -- LCD Brightness on Laptop Always Set Very Low at Boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/12637 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs