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

[James Knott]

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.
> 
> Is there a command line program I can run to get the LCD to turn on
> again?  Has anyone else experienced this?
> 
> -jr
> 

It might be a hardware problem.