On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 15:44 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 12:20 -0700, darrell pfeifer wrote: > > On my laptop at work, NV driver, when gdm starts up the backlight is > > turned off. If I switch to runlevel 3 and startx then the backlight > > remains on. Eventually, even with all the power manager and backlight > > settings set to 'never', the backlight turns off. I have to reboot the > > machine. > > Ok, I do actually see no backlight with gdm, but a tty switch and back > brings it back on. I think I've seen this on one of the heads on my dual head ATI (proprietary driver) system. It's the one hooked up to DVI. I didn't realize it was only the backlight and thought it was a sync problem or something. This is on F8. Like Jesse, switch tty to vt-1 and back fixes it. David -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list