Screen shutting off and refusing to turn back on

[quinn]

I tried ctrl-alt-f1 when I was having this problem, to no good end (I 
also tried the other function keys, including f7, as listed in the post 
you mentioned), and I tried them after rebooting, and I verified that I 
have no virtual terminals.

Derek Broughton wrote:

> Look for a post asking about this on Dells ("Re: Quick Dell laptop test -
>
>help required").  Perhaps it applies to you as well, in which case the
>quick fix is to _never_ close the lid unless you're running an X session.
>
>My blind fix when I do that is to ctrl-alt-f1, log in (just assume the login
>process is working) and do "sudo vbetool post".  You might verify if that
>works for you by going to vt1, login and type that command, but don't hit
>"enter" yet.  Then close & open the lid and if the screen is turned off,
>hit enter and see if it comes back.  If that works, another solution would
>be to write an ACPI rule to always issue "vbetool post" on the LID open
>event.
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