[ltp] LED screen died again...

[Andrew Mason]

I think you should take it back.

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Volker Krueger <vok@cvmi.aau.dk> wrote:
> Hi Helen,
>
> at the moment there are no silly questions !! :-)
>
> To answer your question: the screen is definitely not sleeping in the nor=
mal
> 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 faint=
ly
> 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 b=
ios
> 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: =A0are you sure it's not just that th=
e
>> screen is going to sleep? =A0Have you tried swiping your finger across t=
he
>> trackpad a couple of times when it drops out?
>>
>> H.
>>
>>
>
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