[PLUG] ThinkPad X200 display issue

[Leander S. Harding]

This really sounds like backlight hardware wearing out. An easy way to
verify if it's got anything to do with software would be to reboot into
your BIOS config screen and see if it still happens there.

-L

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Chuck Hast <wchast at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am not sure if this was a upgrade or just something dying of old age.
>
> My X200 all of a sudden started showing a variation in intensity, at
> about 3-5 hz rate. It does not flash it just goes from one level of
> intensity
> down to one that is perhaps 3 steps lower then it goes back up to full
> intensity, at the above rate. Also I notice that the color is more towards
> the red. I am running a 2nd screen on the video port, and after a while
> of this the laptop screen goes dark.
>
> Have I lost the tube driver or is a tube going bad or have I got a driver
> issue? This appeared to happy after a Ubuntu update here a couple
> of days ago. I tend more to believe it is hardware related, but I do not
> see much on the web about this sort of thing.
>
>
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