I was using Lucid and had no back light issues, but on Maverick and Natty I
had to plug in a VGA cable to make the back light work on both versions.
Plus my contrast does not work in neither Natty, Maverick, or Lucid.

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Bryce Harrington <<email address hidden>
> wrote:

> When did this first start happening?  Had you had natty installed and
> working on it previously?  I see this natty install was a fresh install,
> but had you had maverick or other ubuntu releases working properly on it
> before?
>
> ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
>       Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/705949
>
> Title:
>  Gateway NV79 Backlight  and Monitor trouble
>
> Status in “xorg” package in Ubuntu:
>   Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: xorg
>
>  Backlight doesn't turn on unless it is plugged into an external
>  monitor. When it is plugged into an external monitor you can see the
>  screen clearly on the external monitor, but on the laptop the screen
>  is split by a black line.
>
>  ProblemType: Bug
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
>  Package: xorg 1:7.5+6ubuntu8
>  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-12.26-generic 2.6.37
>  Uname: Linux 2.6.37-12-generic i686
>  Architecture: i386
>  DRM.card0.DP.1:
>   status: disconnected
>   enabled: disabled
>   dpms: Off
>   modes:
>   edid-base64:
>  DRM.card0.HDMI.A.1:
>   status: disconnected
>   enabled: disabled
>   dpms: Off
>   modes:
>   edid-base64:
>  DRM.card0.LVDS.1:
>   status: connected
>   enabled: enabled
>   dpms: On
>   modes: 1600x900
>   edid-base64:
> AP///////wAGr54QAAAAAAESAQOAJhV4CkUlnFtVnCcZUFQAAAABAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBICtAkGGEFDBAKjMAftYQAAAYAAAADwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAgAAAA/gBBVU8KICAgICAgICAgAAAA/gBCMTczUlcwMSBWMCAKALs=
>  DRM.card0.VGA.1:
>   status: connected
>   enabled: enabled
>   dpms: On
>   modes: 1360x768 1024x768 1024x768 1024x768 800x600 800x600 800x600
> 800x600 640x480 640x480 640x480 720x400
>   edid-base64:
> AP///////wBMLnQLAQEBAQATAQIIOSB4Kpd9pFZLmB0QR0qvzgABAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBZiFQsFEAGzBAcDYAOkAhAAAeAAAA/QA4Vh5GCwAKICAgICAgAAAA/ABTQU5ZTyBMQ0QKICAgAAAA/gAKICAgICAgICAgICAgAMM=
>  Date: Fri Jan 21 15:52:46 2011
>  DistUpgraded: Fresh install
>  DistroCodename: natty
>  DistroVariant: ubuntu
>  GdmLog1: Not present
>  GdmLog2: Not present
>  GraphicsCard:   Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:031c]
>  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110121)
>  MachineType: Gateway NV79
>  ProcEnviron:
>   LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8:en
>   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>   LC_MESSAGES=en_AG.utf8
>   SHELL=/bin/bash
>  ProcKernelCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/hostname.seed boot=casper
> initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
>  SourcePackage: xorg
>  Symptom: display
>  UnitySupportTest:
>
>  dmi.bios.date: 01/05/2010
>  dmi.bios.vendor: Gateway
>  dmi.bios.version: V1.05
>  dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag
>  dmi.board.name: NV79
>  dmi.board.vendor: Gateway
>  dmi.board.version: V1.05
>  dmi.chassis.type: 10
>  dmi.chassis.vendor: Gateway
>  dmi.chassis.version: V1.05
>  dmi.modalias:
> dmi:bvnGateway:bvrV1.05:bd01/05/2010:svnGateway:pnNV79:pvrV1.05:rvnGateway:rnNV79:rvrV1.05:cvnGateway:ct10:cvrV1.05:
>  dmi.product.name: NV79
>  dmi.product.version: V1.05
>  dmi.sys.vendor: Gateway
>  version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.22-2ubuntu1
>  version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.9+repack-1ubuntu6
>  version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.5+6ubuntu8
>  version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.13.2-1ubuntu2
>  version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel
> 2:2.13.901-2ubuntu2
>  version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
> 1:0.0.16+git20100805+b96170a-0ubuntu1
>
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