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On Sun, 2014-02-02 at 02:30 +0000, bad apple wrote: > On 01/02/14 23:15, Kevin Lucas wrote: > > No it has worked fine for about 3 months after the fan and Ram, > > It does a fast boot so no bios shown ( a red herring) > > > > Yes to OS after update came up with the Display fully Dimmed. > > > Ok, I follow you now. Well, that's good news then - it's just some > stupid Linux bug that's the problem, and that's going to be hopefully > relatively easy to diagnose and fix. > > Did you try the Grub stanza edit? Yes but only after upping the Dim setting so it works both ways. > That's the first avenue of attack and > the most likely to succeed, before we start playing with Xbacklight and > other possible causes. Incorrect ACPI tables and stupid Ubuntu kernel > configs will be at the root of this I predict (my crappy little Aspire > One netbook has the same chipset so I'm pretty familiar with it's many, > many foibles). > > My netbook for some incomprehensible reason boots, displays BIOS + Grub, > shows about 15 seconds of Lubuntu starting - about enough to get to the > "enter LUKS password to decrypt root" prompt - and then blanks the > screen for exactly 30 seconds, every time. After 30 secs the screen > jumps back to life - if I type the password in blind whilst it's blanked > it successfully unlocks and begins the boot process however, so it's not > like it's hung up or something. No matter what I do, the screen blanking > on boot always lasts exactly 30 seconds, regardless of whether I log in > or wait for it. I have *absolutely no idea* why this happens and have > just to come to regard it as one of netbook's 'quirks'. > > Regards > Yes the ee does this as well with Fedora and Mint it was ok on this but Ubuntu its quite scary having 30 s of blank screen at boot. -- ________________________________________________________________________ Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) A dedicated Linux user /usr/bin/microsoft Skype minions_shop www.minionsbandb.co.uk www.tearooms.minionsbandb.co.uk FaceBook Minions_shop Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq