[ltp] LED screen died again...

[Volker Krueger]

Hi Helen,

at the moment there are no silly questions !! :-)

To answer your question: the screen is definitely not sleeping in the 
normal sense.
A) I am using my thinkpad very often, and I usually have no problem in 
recognizing when the screen sleeps.
B) the screen is running fine, except for the illumination: One can 
faintly see the letters and windows on the screen
C) I tried out to re-animate the screen with different xset commans, but 
no success this way.

But in any case: these are all OS (Ubuntu in my case) related functions, 
and iff my problems are due to them, then everyone else using ubuntu 
should observe that, too.

Furthermore, if my screen would just be sleeping, I should at least see 
bios messages on the screen during boot-up, I think.

best,
Volker





Helen Borrie wrote:
> At 05:57 PM 12/05/2009, you wrote:
>   
>> Hi again,
>>
>> may be I should add that except for the led-based screen illumination, everything else seems to be working fine (external monitor, etc.)
>>     
>
> It might be a silly question, but:  are you sure it's not just that the screen is going to sleep?  Have you tried swiping your finger across the trackpad a couple of times when it drops out?
>
> H.
>
>