Auteur: Martin Steigerwald Datum: Aan: 617, devuan developers internal list, Olaf Meeuwissen Onderwerp: [devuan-dev] bug#617: bug#617: initscripts: brightness init script
sets brightness to zero, thus blanking laptop display
Olaf Meeuwissen - 12.10.21, 13:14:17 CEST: > Hi,
>
> Martin Steigerwald writes:
> > Dear Mark.
> >
> > Mark Hindley - 11.10.21, 19:06:44 CEST:
> >> The brightness initscript seems to save
> >> /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness to
> >> /var/lib/initscripts/brightness when it is stopped.
> >>
> >> On your system, what does the
> >> /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness contain?
> >
> > I can check tomorrow again. However… after I wrote "512" to the
> > "/var/lib/initscripts/brightness" file, brightness is set correctly
> > after reboot. So I am not sure I can reproduce the original
> > condition after the update anymore.
> >
> > So or so, I think it would be good to ensure a minimum brightness
> > level, as a completely blank display can only be fixed with a live
> > Linux, SSH access or some other out of band management access.
>
> Does this mean that even switching to the console (Ctrl-Alt-F1, etc)
> doesn't give you a screen where can see what you're doing?
Yes. I tried via Ctrl-Alt-F1 on the laptop and via SSH with "chvt 1".
Nothing.
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