xorg intel driver in rawhide

[David Mansfield]

On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 15:44 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 12:20 -0700, darrell pfeifer wrote:
> > On my laptop at work, NV driver, when gdm starts up the backlight is
> > turned off. If I switch to runlevel 3 and startx then the backlight
> > remains on. Eventually, even with all the power manager and backlight
> > settings set to 'never', the backlight turns off. I have to reboot the
> > machine.
> 
> Ok, I do actually see no backlight with gdm, but a tty switch and back
> brings it back on.

I think I've seen this on one of the heads on my dual head ATI
(proprietary driver) system.  It's the one hooked up to DVI.  I didn't
realize it was only the backlight and thought it was a sync problem or
something.  This is on F8.  Like Jesse, switch tty to vt-1 and back
fixes it.

David