On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:12:29PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > FYI: All the special characters in /etc/issue will go away in the next > filesystems release (as agetty deals with it now). > > Also, if you want to see what happened during boot, there is /var/log/boot Something remotely related for which I'd appreciate a solution: On one of the laptops I use, at some point during the boot sequence the display brightness is reduced to almost invisible. Any ideas of where to look to fix this ? TIA, -- FA