[ltp] TP R32 LCD goes blank, won't come back

[Eben King]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, morpheus wrote:

> I've been experiencing an intermittent problem on my TP R32 running
> Fedora Core 1/Kernel 2.4.22-1.2188 with the radeon driver.
> 
> The LCD screen randomly goes dark.  It happens randomly, even when I am
> in the middle of something, so it's not the APM timer.  Nothing I can do
> will get it back (I tried all the Fn+ keys, and many other key combos). 
> The backlight and display both shut off, so I can't see anything. 
> However, I can ssh into the machine, so I know it's working.

When you ssh in, is anything unusual running?  Are there any tell-tale
entries near the end of /var/log/messages?  This is in X, yes?  Does the 
console work when this happens?

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