[PLUG] Ubuntu 11.10 vs. Asus S62FP Laptop

Tim Wescott tim at wescottdesign.com
Wed Nov 16 19:23:17 UTC 2011


On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 23:11 -0600, Fred James wrote:
> Tim Wescott wrote:
> > I just upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu 11.10, and whenever I close the lid
> > the backlight goes off.
> >
> > That would be a good thing, except that when I open the lid the backlight
> > does not come on.  This is new with Ubuntu 11.10.
> >
> > I've found some web pages that relate similar symptoms with Linux and
> > various other laptops, but the diagnosed root causes seem to be all over
> > the map, and none of the suggested work-arounds seem to work around the
> > problem for me, except for setting 'nomodeset' in grub which messes up my
> > screen aspect ratio.
> >
> > Anyone have any suggestions?
> >   
> Tim Wescott
> That is "hibernate", isn't it?  ... close the lid and the box goes into 
> hibernate mode until opened again?  Sometimes there is a hibernate 
> button as well ... sometimes called sleep?
> Well, I am not going to be much help ... sorry ... when I had laptops 
> (Red Hat or Mandriva/Mandrake), hibernate never worked for me either.  I 
> should be interested to hear (and to hear how) if anyone has ever gotten 
> that to work in Linux.
> At one time Red Hat had a laptop specific install ... hibernate may have 
> worked in that, but I didn't have a laptop at that point, and the laptop 
> install (as I remember) would not had suited my needs anyway.  I think 
> Mandrake once supported laptop install as well.
> Sorry
> Regards
> Fred James

It's not hibernate -- this is just turning the backlight off, but the
computer is still running in the background.  I've _never_ gotten either
suspend or hibernate to work on that machine.

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Tim Wescott
www.wescottdesign.com
Control & Communications systems, circuit & software design.




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