Re: Toshiba Laptop trouble

The Saint wrote:

I am using SuSe 10.0 with a Toshiba Satellite Laptop. My concern is
regarding the screen. It dims incessantly, as if it were powering down,
and the only way to get it back is to keep pressing the closed lid button.
It will usually go right back to fully dimmed, buttonpress after
buttonpress, and after about five minutes of this sort of frustrating
playing around it eventually settles down and remains at the correct
illumination. I am guessing it is in the power management systems, but for
the life of me I am at a loss to find it. The system is always plugged
in. I have been playing around trying to find it for about a month, and if
anything I have noticed it seems worse than when I originally installed
the system.

Another hint is the fact it appears before Grub has even
managed to load, so this seems to be something pretty low level. I am
embarrassed to say I have yet to manage to call up the actual system bios.
Are laptops different than desktops in this regard? All I have managed is
to call up boot source options.

I am relatively new to Linux, and entirely new to SusSe, so any direction
would be greatly appreciated. Google has not been of any help.

Thank you in advance,

Michael.

Michael,

I have run many different distros on the two laptops that I have owned. I
have never had a problem like this. Unless somebody chimes in here with an
idea, I would say it's something weird with the laptop?

bertman
.

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