I have a laptop that is running Linux but I d not think this is a linux problem. Yesterday I powered off my old Gateway 5150 and today when I powered it back on, the LCD screen is EXTREMEMELY dark, almost completely black, but if you look very closely you can barely see the boot messages and the GDM login prompt when it comes up and I can SSH in. If I plug it into a monitor it looks fine too. No matter what I try I cannot get the brightness back to an even readable level. This occurs right from the BIOS messages so it has to be a hardware issue. Anyone have any suggestions? (Yes, I tried the brightness function keys) Anyone know of a good repair shop otherwise? I don't want to junk this thing as I spent so much time getting it just the way I like it. Thx, Josh _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list