I found a new workaround to make the screen come back on. Fn + F7 (toggles between laptop LCD, External VGA, and both mirrored.) Pressing this combination turned my laptop LCD back on. I'm 99% certain this workaround did not work when I first reported this bug running earlier karmic packages.
-- karmic 2.6.31-2 and -3 lid closing blacks screen until reboot on thinkpad r52 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/399636 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
