On some Lenovo laptop systems running nuoveau driver, the screen goes black (and remains) when cycling Fn F7 on RHEL 6.3

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Issue

  • On some Lenovo laptop systems running the nuoveau driver, the screen goes black (and remains) when cycling Fn F7

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.3
  • Lenovo laptop W510
  • Lenovo laptop T410
  • Lenovo laptop T420

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