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Dell D610 screen off even after laptop lid opened




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Subject: Dell D610 screen off even after laptop lid opened

From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>

Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:14:54 -0500 (CDT)


My Dell Latitude D610 screen backlight stays off after lid is re-opened.

dmesg at:
http://reedmedia.net/~reed/tmp-nb73459yt/dmesg.boot-Dell-Latitude-D610-NetBSD-4.0-i386

My workaround: installed vbetool from packages; enabled powerd and run at 
"released" for lid_switch script:       /usr/pkg/sbin/vbetool dpms on


Any ideas on how to get NetBSD to get the screen back on without 
third-party tool?

(I am at console; no X yet.)

  Jeremy C. Reed




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