Excerpts from Fons Adriaensen's message of 2011-09-27 12:55:51 +0200: > 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, It could be a kernel bug with this specific laptop. When the display brightness control on my laptop didn't work I filed a bug at kernel.org, provided additional information and one or two kernel releases later it worked.
