Blank screen problem with dell inspiron 6400 running flight6

[Francisco Borges]

» On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 07:24PM +0530, Nagaprabhanjan Bellaro wrote:

> My power management window shows that when the lid is closed, it will blank
> the screen, but when I open the lid, the display does not turn on. I press
> Fn+F8(crt/lcd), enter, everything, the display just does not get on. I have
> to reboot the machine to get the display back to life again.
>
> Am I missing something somewhere?

Perhaps. But I don't know what.

I also have a Dell Inspiron 6400 and with mine closing the lid will turn
off the screen and re-opening will turn it on again.

I'm running Kubuntu FWIW...
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Francisco