Back light staying on when screen blanks
Colin Law
clanlaw at googlemail.com
Tue Feb 28 14:46:21 UTC 2012
On 28 February 2012 10:27, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I have an issue since recent updates (on Precise) where my laptop
> backlight stays on when the screen is blanked following a period of
> inactivity. The screen goes blank but the backlight is still on,
> which rather defeats the object of the exercise. This is with Intel
> graphics. I can't find a bug report other than [1] which maintains
> that the issue is to do with nvidia. I don't know what package to
> report the bug against, suggestions would gratefully received.
Much to my surprise I find that following some updates and a reboot
the backlight now seems to be behaving itself. Whether the fix was as
a result of the upgrades or whether something had just got confused
and the reboot fixed it I do not know.
Colin
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