[arch-general] startup messages gone

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:12:29PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote:
 
> FYI: All the special characters in /etc/issue will go away in the next
> filesystems release (as agetty deals with it now).
> 
> Also, if you want to see what happened during boot, there is /var/log/boot

Something remotely related for which I'd appreciate a solution:

On one of the laptops I use, at some point during the boot
sequence the display brightness is reduced to almost invisible.

Any ideas of where to look to fix this ?

TIA,

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FA