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DennistheMenace

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Registered: 2011-04-24

Posts: 2

X.org on eMachines e525 is very bad!

Ok now I write perfect inglish. So ..

When I do pacman -Suy (it upgrades xorg too) and after that I restart the PC, the backlight is turned off and I cant turn it on. It's hard to explain now because I were pissed on to see black screen. I have switched now to ubuntu but I feel sick if I see this OS. In fact there's the same problem. But a long time ago I know how to solve the problem but now I forgot .. I only remember that if I wanted to change backlight level it has changed in a changed way (like 10 , 1 , 2, 3 etc.).

I hope you can help me.

Regards, Dennis (the Menace)

PS. I have ONLY changed settings in X and in GRUB

egenix

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Registered: 2010-09-21

Posts: 7

Re: X.org on eMachines e525 is very bad!

Im not quite sure I understand the question. Do you want to change back to the previous xorg?

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DennistheMenace

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Registered: 2011-04-24

Posts: 2

Re: X.org on eMachines e525 is very bad!

Nope, I just want to have back the backlight

Last edited by DennistheMenace (2011-05-13 14:27:17)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: X.org on eMachines e525 is very bad!

Have you tried any of the methods from the wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Backlight ?

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 19,785

Re: X.org on eMachines e525 is very bad!

Of course, to use karol's suggestion, you have to be able to see what you are doing.

Did you know you can use can make a backlit display work like a transflective display by shinning a bright light on it from off-axis ? (arrange it so you minimize the glare back in your direction)
-or-
you can ssh in from another machine (if you had set it up for that previously)

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: X.org on eMachines e525 is very bad!

Of course, to use karol's suggestion, you have to be able to see what you are doing.

Did you know you can use can make a backlit display work like a transflective display by shinning a bright light on it from off-axis ? (arrange it so you minimize the glare back in your direction)
-or-
you can ssh in from another machine (if you had set it up for that previously)

I thought more like good ol' liveUSB + chroot but if the trick with the bright light works, all the better :-)