I have tried to use the framebuffer text console with the latest (as of yesterday) kernel 3.7-rc1. I have a Thinkpad Edge 13, model 0197, with onboard Radeon HD3200. So far, so good, except that instead of actually blanking the screen and powering it down, the screen goes blank momentarily and then goes back on, but fully white. dmesg is totally silent on this subject.
Under X, there's no problem. The screen goes black when power saving, not white, and is powered down properly. When I close the laptop's lid, the screen is blanked and backlight turned off just as it is supposed to be. I'm pretty sure the problem wasn't there in 3.5 kernels, and can't really say about 3.6 series. I'm wondering if that's kernel or my hands, but the kernel 3.2 worked fine (I'm on Debian Sid and they ship it). I haven't tried to bisect this, either, given a few deadlines I'm facing. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
