Bug 480735

Summary: Screen is so dark after coming back from suspend x61
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Yolkfull Chow <yzhou>
Component: halAssignee: David Zeuthen <davidz>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs>
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Version: 5.3CC: mclasen, rhughes, riek, sghosh, syeghiay
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Description Yolkfull Chow 2009-01-20 07:56:11 UTC
Description of problem:
After suspend x61,press power button to return, the screen is so dark, user could only logout and re-login to fix the problem.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
5.3-server-x86_64

How reproducible:
Everytime

Steps to Reproduce:
1. suspend the computer
2. press power to return
3.
  
Actual results:
Screen is too dark.

Expected results:
Screen's light should be as normal as that before suspending the computer.

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Comment 2 Subhendu Ghosh 2009-03-11 04:09:15 UTC
Please see the following for similar issue:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486027

Comment 3 Richard Hughes 2009-05-12 10:41:49 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> Expected results:
> Screen's light should be as normal as that before suspending the computer.

Do you mean the brightness is reduced, or the backlight is on? Is the DPMS set off, or has X crashed?

If you do (blindly) in a terminal "xset dpms force on" what happens? Are there any X logs for the suspend? Any errors in dmesg?

Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2009-05-12 11:16:02 UTC
Development Management has reviewed and declined this request.  You may appeal
this decision by reopening this request.