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Hi,
Coming from #176888 which has been marked duplicate of current issue :
Hardware : sony Vaio BZ11XN (Intel GMA X4500MHD).
I confirm, on latest Intrepid (as of 2008-08-30), that the xrandr manual-call is *needed* to be able to use xbacklight.
My Fn-keys are not working but this is another problem (#251665).
As I stated in #173652 : 2 times out of 3, the rc.local call to xrandr seems to make some kind of race condition with gdm startup ; X do not start completely and the machine hard-locks : gdm starts, the screen blinks 2 or 3 times, then remains black (with backlight on) ; no response from anything (CAPS led is unresponsive, nor SysRq-reboot). Pulling the xrandr call out of rc.local and calling it in a terminal *after* GNOME session has opened is OK and makes xbacklight work everytime. (should I fill another bug with this ?)