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Bug#701611: Darkscreen problem



On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 10:23 +0100, Norbert Bollow wrote:
[...]
> Installtion seemed to go ok, but when starting the installed system, the screen
> went really really dark (not quite absolutely black, but almost). I've
> succeeded in sort of working around this problem by means of adding
> 
>   acpi_osi=Linux
> 
> as a kernel boot option, and adding
> 
>   setpci -s 00:02.0 F4.B=00
> 
> to /etc/rc.local
> 
> but this is not a complete solution, since when e.g. the screen goes dark
> because the screen goes dark because for "screensaver" reasons, it is then
> impossible to recover.

There is a newer kernel version (3.2.39-1) available in
'unstable' (which should get into Debian 7.0) with many fixes to
graphics drivers.  Could you try upgrading to that?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.) - Stafford Beer

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