[ltp] Internal LCD stays black

John Jason Jordan linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:13:18 -0700


On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:25:57 +0200
Bastian Machek <machek@gmx.de> dijo:

> when I close the lid of my Thinkpad X40 and reopen if after a while, the 
> internal LCD stays black and won't turn on again. My external second 
> display is not affected and does power up again. This sometimes also 
> occurs when I did a suspend to RAM. Switching to a virtual console, 
> brings the internal display on, but after switching back to X, the 
> display goes black again.
> 
> Any ideas on how to fix this?
> 
> Even commandos like: xset dpms ... etc have no effect.
> 
> My distributions are Ubuntu Hardy, and OpenSuSE 11.0.

i have no idea why, but when I close the lid on my T61 it goes black
and it comes back to light when I open it.