closing laptop lid during boot stops X from appearing

[Robert Collins]

if I close my laptop lid (a Dell X1) during the boot sequence with usplash
visible, the backlight goes off. When X comes up (I can tell from the sound) the
backlight is still off. Doing a suspend to ram/resume cycle will often bring X
back, though I sometimes have to hit fn-brightness to get the backlight to come on.

[Matthew Garrett (mjg59)]

Dell BIOS bug. The same happens in Windows, but the Windows graphics driver
knows how to switch the backlight back on.

(You can test this by booting Windows, waiting until the 16 colour graphical
loading screen appears and cycling the lid. The backlight won't switch back on
until Windows loads the graphics driver.

[D. Brodzik (amyrose)]

This happens on my Toshiba A65-S126 laptop too. It seems to be universal. I can't say anything about Windows because I don't use it.

[Alex Muntada (alex.muntada)]

Do you still experience the same issue with Dapper? And Edgy?

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 16:18 +0000, Alex Muntada wrote:
> Do you still experience the same issue with Dapper? And Edgy?

Yes in dapper, dont know in edgy, I've not had time to setup a new
partition etc.

-Rob
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[Alex Muntada (alex.muntada)]

Rob, since it seems a BIOS bug, did you try to update your BIOS?

Matthew, is there any plan to tweak the driver on Ubuntu to do the
same that the Windows one does?

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 14:35 +0000, Alex Muntada wrote:
> Rob, since it seems a BIOS bug, did you try to update your BIOS?

At the time I was running the latest and greatest BIOS. I'm not aware of
any update since then, but I shall have a look and see.

Rob
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[Matthew Garrett (mjg59)]

Dell hardware bug.

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 22:01 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Dell hardware bug.
>
> ** Changed in: Ubuntu
> Status: Needs Info => Rejected

So theres no hope of working around it in software ?

-Rob
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[Matthew Garrett (mjg59)]

At the point where we have sensible framebuffers and flying cars and moon pods, but not really until then. Or Dell could just fix their BIOS.

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 02:00 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> At the point where we have sensible framebuffers and flying cars and
> moon pods, but not really until then. Or Dell could just fix their BIOS.

So upstream in this case is Dell :). Pity they dont seem to have a
bugzilla we can mark as upstream for this bug.. or do they ? Can you
help me tell Dell what is wrong, that they need to fix ?

-Rob

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