From: Jan De Luyck <lkml@kcore.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.15] screen remains blank after LID switch use
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:28:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200601161028.04137.lkml@kcore.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43CB60E4.1060305@sairyx.org>
On Monday 16 January 2006 10:01, Arlen Christian Mart Cuss wrote:
> Check out /proc/acpi - you should find a few things that you can tinker
> with, including one for your screen; often called `lcd'. If you "echo 1
>
> > lcd" in the right directory, it should switch it on. "echo 0 > lcd"
>
> switches it off. Whatever is managing your power that turns it off,
> isn't turning it back on. Look into these. It's not likely to be the
> console/X driver's fault.
Okay, thanks for that information. After some further googling I came up with
this:
# echo 0x80000001 > /proc/acpi/video/VID/LCD/state
and the screen comes back to life. Thanks!
Jan
--
To err is human, to forgive is against company policy.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-16 9:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-16 8:46 [2.6.15] screen remains blank after LID switch use Jan De Luyck
2006-01-16 9:01 ` Arlen Christian Mart Cuss
2006-01-16 9:28 ` Jan De Luyck [this message]
2006-01-16 9:05 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-01-16 19:19 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-01-16 23:23 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-01-16 11:02 ` Paul Dickson
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