[SOLVED] Led Backlight Turns Off Once I Enter X

[Spirit]

If I boot my Pandora I end up with a black screen. I was sitting in the sunlight when it happened though and noticed that I could see things if I let the sun shine directly onto the screen. The booting itself is normal, I can see everything, things are lit. But once the login screen comes up it is almost invisible. So I guess something turns off the LED backlight.

I managed to get the "LCD Settings" thing but if I try to use the brightness control it simply loops back to the selection. White text on black is unreadable as is xterm (too small).

This also happens if I boot from SD card ( with http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?/topic/54290-up-to-date-firmware-tarball/ on it)!

I did not do anything fancy. It worked fine the yesterday. I did not change anything since then.

I guess the login screen is X while the loading bar is framebuffer, might be wrong though.

Any idea or fix?

 

[mindlord]

Does hitting Fn+I turn the backlight up? If so, turn it up to a comfortable level and shutdown the Pandora to have it save it in the configs. If you haven't done so already install Hotfix 2, it will keep it from happening again.

 

[Spirit]

Yes! Thank you! I will sacrifice a goat in your name.
I accidentaly reflashed my NAND before and forgot to apply the hotfix. Could have sworn that I did apply it for the SD card OS though.

 

[mindlord]

No problem, happy to help.

 

[kool65]

I had this problem just today, I already have Hotfix 2 installed, but same symptoms, thinking the system has locked I reset the system to see the bootup logo then the screen went black. I could just make out something there so I blindly logged in, Using Fn-I got the screen back. I then went into the LCD-Settings to find the brightness was set to 10 and I haven't changed it. Anyway I've set it back to 50 and we'll see what happens.

 

[EvilDragon]

I had this problem just today, I already have Hotfix 2 installed, but same symptoms, thinking the system has locked I reset the system to see the bootup logo then the screen went black. I could just make out something there so I blindly logged in, Using Fn-I got the screen back. I then went into the LCD-Settings to find the brightness was set to 10 and I haven't changed it. Anyway I've set it back to 50 and we'll see what happens.

Yes, it's been reported to occasionally still happen.
Will fix that with final HotFix 3