Bug#716799: Boot ending in a blank screen

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Sun, 2013-08-11 at 10:10 +0200, Patrik Nilsson wrote:
> The following boot ended up in a blank screen. The screen was not off,
> but just blank. Gnome was responsive: When I pressed the power button,
> the computer went down in sleep mode normally. When I started the
> computer again the screen was off.
> 
> I needed to press power button five seconds to start over.
> 
> Attach syslogblank.txt and Xorgblank.txt.

Is the screen really blank, or is the backlight turned off?  Does an
image appear if you turn up the screen brightness?

Ben.

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