Laptop screen turning off during boot

[TheAlmightyOS]

ok, tried that and also acpi_backlight=Linux which was suggested in the thread you linked. both did nothing
Also checked that google search. I believe those are all about the function keys not changing the brightness. in this situation the function keys will change the brightness once the monitor is "woken up"

[MikeTbob]

Dang. I'm about out of ideas here. Best I can think of is use a text based installer, if available and see if that helps.

[TheAlmightyOS]

well, PCLINUXOS is installed (I used the external monitor) and I can use the laptop if I leave it set after I boot it up then touch a button (to wake up the screen), it is just annoying as hell.

looking at some console commands right now to see if I can't make a startup script that can kick the backlight on when the system finishes booting


EDIT: I might have something.
I tried many different commands before coming across this

vbetool dpms on

Now, that didn't work and for sh!ts and giggles I used

vbetool dpms off

So at this point I was stareing at two blank screens instead of one. blindly I typed

vbetool dpms on

again and both screens came on!
So now all I got to do is create a script that will run at boot that executes these two commands:

vbetool dpms off
vbetool dpms on

I know how to make the script run when I log in but unsure how to make it run before. gonna have to go back to the googles