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I have a compaq v6000 dual boot Mandriva 2008 and XP. Sometimes, when boot it up, the desktop brightness is a bit dimmed (whites are dirty looking). I have not changed any settings. Other times it comes in nice and bright.
Any idea what I might be able to look at to figure this out?
If it's laptop, are you sure it's not just the screen brightness that's changed? I recall my laptop sometimes dimmed the screen if it ran low on power (typically after the battery run completely out, next boot it was on the dimmest setting).
Another explanation is that the screen is broken or it could be something else. Try the brightness buttons first, panic later.
If it's laptop, are you sure it's not just the screen brightness that's changed? I recall my laptop sometimes dimmed the screen if it ran low on power (typically after the battery run completely out, next boot it was on the dimmest setting).
Another explanation is that the screen is broken or it could be something else. Try the brightness buttons first, panic later.
It always works fine when booting to winders. What I end up doing, which is wierd, is when needed, I boot to windows and then into linux and the screen is nice and bright.
It's like the monitor has some setting when coming from being off (EG: at night) or it needs to warm up or something.
Distribution: 5.4.0-71-generic #79-Ubuntu x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Mint 20.1
Posts: 4
Rep:
Am I having the same issue?
I have upgraded from Mint 19.2 to 20.1
When I open certain images files open much darker than they appear in the thumbnail images. Only the image I open is affected not the whole screen. APCI can effect just the local image?
This had not happened in the past version of Mint, but I did see there were many changes to the kernel since then.
anyone have a clue other than this? I looked all over and have yet to discover since upgrading and this post look closest to my issue. I will look into APCI
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or it could be something else. Try the brightness buttons first, panic later.
