[ltp] frequent black screen on start-up, good later on

morpheus linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 6 Apr 2005 09:55:58 -0400 (EDT)


>> Tt runs as nicely as it always did, except for the screen: when I boot, it
>> often stays black. Most of the time it lights up in the middle of the Linux
>> boot process, sometimes not at all (in those cases I log in blindly and
>> shutdown the system).

When you log in blindly, can  you try this:
radeontool light on

You will need to be root, so either log in as root or su ...
-m
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