On Jul 18, 2013 12:25 PM, "Patrick Lists" <fedora-l...@puzzled.xs4all.nl> wrote: > > Hi Fred, > > > On 07/18/2013 08:50 PM, Fred Smith wrote: >> >> hi gang! >> >> I've put F19 on my Acer Aspire One (dual-core Atom) where it mostly runs >> just fine. >> >> but I've noticed one oddity (by no means a show-stopper) during boot: >> when it prompts for the LUKS password (for the encrypted /home partition) >> the box for password entry flashes on the screen, then the screen goes >> blank for 30 seconds (or so) then the box appears again. >> >> I noticed a day or two ago that if there's a bright lamp shining on the >> screen when it is in that blank state that the box is in fact still drawn >> there, but it appears that the screen backlight has been shut off--I can >> still see the image of it faintly in the bright light. >> >> Everything else regarding screen behavior is fine, but this one is >> pretty consistently occurring every system boot. >> >> This did not occur immediately after installation, but I first noticed >> it only a week (or so) ago (sorry, I wasn't taking notes...) so one >> wonders if some update has caused it. >> >> Any ideas on this one? > > > Iirc there have been some reports by people that they had to downgrade the xorg server package. Have you tried that? > > Other than that, the only semi-similar thing I have seen was during a recent F19 installation where after some time the screen goes blank/black (backlight goes off) and nothing would turn the screen back on. This was a kickstart install with reboot at the end so I just left it running and after a while it rebooted into a fresh F19 install. > > Regards, > Patrick > >
Without X to make reading easier / faster, then using lynx how do I find F19? Or, how do I downgrade X without the ability to see what I'm doing? And in trying to fix it, I entered: video.use_bios_Initial_biacklight=0 and it asked me for extra input.
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