LCD screen died

[fidodido]

Binary package hint: yelp

2 days ago after updating ubuntu using the update manager i noticed that my laptop screen was darker than usual and filckering a bit when i would have it on battery power but worked fine on AC power. On battery power yesterday the screen died randomly. It came back when i open and close the laptop screen for a few seconds and would die again and it came back when i connected to AC power but that wont work anymore either. I decreased the brightness through power management and that helped at first but then the screen started crashing again. Im wondering if this is a software issue or a hardware issue, most likely its hardware related but its weird that it happened right after i did an update.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 0b08093cf426e38b3aec7781f007cd4b
CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308
Date: Thu Feb 18 17:16:34 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
Package: yelp 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic i686

[IKT (ikt)]

If you run a live cd of ubuntu 10.04 or 9.10 does it still have the issues?

[IKT (ikt)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[IKT (ikt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner.
There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test the current Ubuntu development version (10.10). If you can test it, and it is still an issue, we would appreciate if you could upload updated logs by running apport-collect <bug #>, and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.