laptop screen blanking wont stop!

[Douglas J Hunley]

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dep wrote:
> quoth Douglas J Hunley:
> | I can change back to initdefault:3 for debugging.
>
> good. what happens if you do? do you get a usable console?

yes. in fact, the console does blank. but it comes back when you press enter

>
> | bad XF86Config? define bad...
>
> it is, of course, a subjective thing, and we mustn't be judgmental, but
> generally speaking "bad" and "unusable" would coincide in this case.
>
> something else -- is this on battery or ac power?

ac power

all power mgmt in the bios is OFF.

looks like this is X related. off for more testing
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panic("Detected a card I can't drive - whoops\n"); -- 2.2.16 
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