'doh I shut off my laptop display

[Bob Cortez]

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Brian Tillman <
mailinglists at briantillman.com> wrote:

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> On May 26, 2008, at 5:53 PM, Bob Cortez wrote:
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> I've really buggered it up this time, and I have no clue how to turn my
> display back on.  I've tried booting into the recovery mode and using the
> command sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg but that didn't work.  Anyone
> have an answer that doesn't involve reinstalling 8.04?
>
>
> Hey Bob,
> Do you get any output on your screen during boot up? If not, sometimes
> there is a button on the laptop (usually accessed with a function key) for
> turning off the LCD in lieu of an external display.
>
> Can you see your system boot; and then goes blank when X starts?
>

Display works fine up until I complete log in, then it goes black.  I was
messing around with Graphics/Screen GUI and turned off the display.

Bob
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