[ltp] Brightness and Suspend on T61 6459-CTO

[mstralka]

John Jason Jordan-2 wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:31:07 -0700 (PDT)
> mstralka <mstralka@gmail.com> dijo:
> 
>> I have the T61 with Nvidia 140m and Intel Wireless 3945.  I installed
>> Ubuntu
>> Gutsy last week.
>> 
>> I've been following the Thinkwiki instructions for Gutsy on the T61 but
>> cannot get the brightness controls to work in X.  
> 
> I have a T61 with the same video, although my wireless is the 4965. I
> cannot get the brightness to work without going to the command line
> either. I have followed the Ubuntu threads on this and I haven't heard
> of anyone else succeeding either.
> 
>> Suspend:
>> Suspend works but when I try to resume, the screen stays blank.  I
>> followed
>> the Thinkwiki instructions for the Nvidia card but it didn't help.  I
>> have
>> to do a hard-shutdown and startup to get it working again.  
> 
> Same here, but I did discover that it works if I close the lid instead
> of doing Fn-F4. That is, if I close the lid it suspends, and when I
> open the lid it restores correctly. If I use Fn-F4 it suspends
> correctly, but I cannot get it back. According to the instructions from
> Lenovo to restore you just hit Fn, but that does not work. I have to
> shut down with the power switch and restart.
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What happens on yours when you execute the following from the command line?
xbacklight -set 100
Does it work for you?

I just tried closing the lid.  It went to sleep but when it woke up, the
screen was blank.  The caps lock key did work for a bit, then it stopped.  I
had to do a hard-restart.
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