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Re: Brightness issue with ubuntu 10.10

 

if you reboot with the failsafe option, and then choose to load
failsafe x-server, does it show a low-res working system?

if so, try and do a reconfigure xserver from there...

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Fco. Javier Rubio <fjrubio@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello world, as a good newbie I have updated my laptop from ubuntu 10.04 to
> 10.10 the very first day. It works almost fine, the only issue being that
> the old workaround of passing i915.modeset=0 to the kernel plus installing
> xbacklight and adding the xrandr command to Startup-apps is not working
> anymore.
>
> A kernel with the i915.modeset=0  loads the O.S. but only in console mode,
> if logging in and trying to startx, the result is No Screen Found!
>
> Avoiding that at the kernel, the GDM loads, but trying to log in with any
> user in whose Startup-apps list I have included the xrandr command results
> in a blink of a black screen with some commands (unreadable as too fast) and
> back to the GDM screen.
>
>
> The result is that currently I can only work at full brightness if switching
> the PC plugged, or dimmed if switching it on unplugged.
>
>
> Any ideas? Thank you,
>
>
>
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