On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 4:15 AM, Scott Gates <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I've installed SL 6.6 on an Dell Inspiron 1420 laptop. upgraded from an
>
> earlier version.
>
> However I'm having problems with the display suddenly.
>
> It's REALLY dark. Nearly unviewable. I've tested with Gnome and KDE. I've
> turned it all the way up in the BIOS, and it's fine when in BIOS mode, or
> just before SL starts to load.
>
> I've tried reinstalling. Same thing. Running from a live instance on a
> thumb drive. Just as dark.  If I use another distro, the video is fine.
> I may be wrong, but I think there is something wrong with the video
> driver.

You may have the "backlight" issue.

(Un)related ticket which contains hints for that:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753012

> Open to suggestions. If anyone