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Re: UL30JT + restricted drivers = black screen

 

I turned it down using the function key + F5 first.
Later I also turned the normal value down in the power settings in ubuntu.

Cheers,

Willem

On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 10:51, Jarra <suhrawardi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Willem,
>
> So, where did you turn down the backlight / brightness?
> Did the restricted driver solve the suspend problem as well?
>
> And did you have any luck with the webcam? The steps mentioned here
> https://launchpad.net/~asus-ul30 didn't work for me.
>
> Thanks,
> Jarra
>
>
> On 06/19/2010 05:20 PM, Willem Ligtenberg wrote:
>> Hmm, just installed again.
>> And when using rerstricted drivers I got a black screen again, even
>> with SATA on IDE.
>> However, changing the video thing to other instead of Windows 7/Vista
>> resulted in a very dark screen.
>> But it booted fine! Now I found out that when I turned the backlight
>> DOWN the screen actually turned on again!
>> So now it works fine, but only after turning down the brightness.
>> Now going to fix the webcam :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Willem
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 09:58, Jarra <suhrawardi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jon,
>>>
>>> I have the same problem myself, and in the BIOS, i can choose between IDE en
>>> AHCI for a SATA mode.... but I don't see an option "compatible"
>>> Did I miss something... ;-)
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> On 06/17/2010 10:05 PM, Jonathan Schemoul wrote:
>>>
>>> In the bios, setup the sata (hard disk) mode to compatible. It will fix all
>>> your problems :)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jon
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Willem Ligtenberg <wligtenberg@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Just bought an UL30JT. Installed ubuntu, no problems. Ran updates and
>>>> rebooted, no problems. Installed restricted driver for the nvidia card
>>>> and rebooted. Result is a black screen.
>>>> I also cannot switch to TTY1-6 using control+alt+F1...
>>>> Recovery mode gives a few lines of text and then ends up with the same
>>>> black screen. I would revert to the normal drivers if I could someow
>>>> get to a terminal.
>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Willem
>>>>
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