wallstreet dark on startup & wakeup w/ 10.2.8

stays off until booting is just about complete and I poke the brightness rocker button.
Eric Bear Albrecht wrote on :

Wallstreet, 10.2.8, two darkness problems:

  1. On startup (it didn't do this with original 10.2) after a point early in the booting up, it futzes with the screen, and since the update to 10.2.8 the illumination is off from that point on, and stays off until booting is just about complete and I poke the brightness rocker button. Then it comes on.
  2. If I put it to sleep the illumination stays off, period.

Clues? TIA

John Johnson replied on :

In article 1goyp6s.18qlfrt1r8zadcN%glampers@redacted.invalid, glampers@redacted.invalid (Eric Bear Albrecht) wrote:

Wallstreet, 10.2.8, two darkness problems:

  1. On startup (it didn't do this with original 10.2) after a point early in the booting up, it futzes with the screen, and since the update to 10.2.8 the illumination is off from that point on, and stays off until booting is just about complete and I poke the brightness rocker button. Then it comes on.
  2. If I put it to sleep the illumination stays off, period.

Clues? TIA

Have you searched the archives of '...portables'? I think this issue has been discussed.

Russell Sheptak replied on :

In article 1goyp6s.18qlfrt1r8zadcN%glampers@redacted.invalid, glampers@redacted.invalid (Eric Bear Albrecht) wrote:

Wallstreet, 10.2.8, two darkness problems:

  1. On startup (it didn't do this with original 10.2) after a point early in the booting up, it futzes with the screen, and since the update to 10.2.8 the illumination is off from that point on, and stays off until booting is just about complete and I poke the brightness rocker button. Then it comes on.
  2. If I put it to sleep the illumination stays off, period.

Clues? TIA

First off, reset your PMU and see if that clears up the problem. It cleared up the problem when my wallstreet exhibited the same behavior.

rus

Clark Martin replied on :

In article 1goyp6s.18qlfrt1r8zadcN%glampers@redacted.invalid, glampers@redacted.invalid (Eric Bear Albrecht) wrote:

Wallstreet, 10.2.8, two darkness problems:

  1. On startup (it didn't do this with original 10.2) after a point early in the booting up, it futzes with the screen, and since the update to 10.2.8 the illumination is off from that point on, and stays off until booting is just about complete and I poke the brightness rocker button. Then it comes on.
  2. If I put it to sleep the illumination stays off, period.

Clues? TIA

It's a known problem. Reboot into OS 9, sleep the computer then reboot into X.

Eric Bear Albrecht replied on :

Clark Martin cmnews@redacted.invalid wrote:

In article 1goyp6s.18qlfrt1r8zadcN%glampers@redacted.invalid, glampers@redacted.invalid (Eric Bear Albrecht) wrote:

Wallstreet, 10.2.8, two darkness problems:

  1. On startup (it didn't do this with original 10.2) after a point early in the booting up, it futzes with the screen, and since the update to 10.2.8 the illumination is off from that point on, and stays off until booting is just about complete and I poke the brightness rocker button. Then it comes on.
  2. If I put it to sleep the illumination stays off, period.

Clues? TIA

It's a known problem. Reboot into OS 9, sleep the computer then reboot into X.

Cool. That did it -- sorta. In 9 when I put it to sleep and then woke it up, it was catatonic: the lights came on but that's all. So I spragged it (ctrl-cmd-start) and then zapped (opt-cmd-P-R) when it came up, and that took care of both 9 and X sleep, as well as the lighting up on boot.

BTW 'PMU' is not in X help. So maybe there's a method in X but I'm still in the dark about that approach.

There are other oddities but a fresh post for them. OK, oddities, line up in alphabetical order by height.

;B

Cathy Stevenson replied on :

In article 1gp3b68.o7p5gml831ygN%glampers@redacted.invalid, Eric Bear Albrecht glampers@redacted.invalid wrote:

Clark Martin cmnews@redacted.invalid wrote:

In article 1goyp6s.18qlfrt1r8zadcN%glampers@redacted.invalid, glampers@redacted.invalid (Eric Bear Albrecht) wrote:

Wallstreet, 10.2.8, two darkness problems:

  1. On startup (it didn't do this with original 10.2) after a point early in the booting up, it futzes with the screen, and since the update to 10.2.8 the illumination is off from that point on, and stays off until booting is just about complete and I poke the brightness rocker button. Then it comes on.
  2. If I put it to sleep the illumination stays off, period.

Clues? TIA

It's a known problem. Reboot into OS 9, sleep the computer then reboot into X.

Cool. That did it -- sorta. In 9 when I put it to sleep and then woke it up, it was catatonic: the lights came on but that's all. So I spragged it (ctrl-cmd-start) and then zapped (opt-cmd-P-R) when it came up, and that took care of both 9 and X sleep, as well as the lighting up on boot.

BTW 'PMU' is not in X help. So maybe there's a method in X but I'm still in the dark about that approach.

Put "reset PMU" in the search box at Apple support. It's a useful troubleshooting procedure to know but is done differently on the different PB models.

Cathy