Sunday, February 17, 2013

HP Pavilion g1310, linux boots into black screen

When booting HP Pavilion g1310 into Linux (Ubuntu 12.10, Linux 3.5.0.x),  it seems like the system hangs. At some point the screen turns black and nothing happens. This may be true for various laptops, not just this one. In reality, the system boots with brightness setting set to zero; therefore, system appears to hand when it does not. On this particular model, hitting F3 (or Fn-F3, depending on BIOS setting for functional keys) increases brightness and shows up login screen. Well, doing this every time the system boots is annoying. The solution:
1. Determine the max brightness value
    $ cat /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/max_brightness
    10

2. Add a line into /etc/rc.local to adjust brightness between zero and max_brightness (5 in my case) at boot right above the "exit 0" line
    echo 5 > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness
3. Reboot

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