[ltp] LED screen died again...

[Volker Krueger]

Hi Morten,

that's the thing: I can't! It was bought through the university, which, 
here in DK, is treated like a company, which means that I have almost no 
legal way to enforce anything except the next-day support I had also bought.
Essentially, they can continue repairing it until the support time runs 
out...



Andrew Mason wrote:
> 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 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
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