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Issue with laptop screen when opening lid

I use Archlinux, with acpid to configure the laptop lid behavior rather than systemd. Currently, I have it set so vbetool sets dpms off when the lid is closed, and reopening the lid sets it back on. ...
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Cannot control brightness with Fedora 14 on Compaq CQ42

I've done the primary searching of similar questions, Found some, tried the solutions and they didn't work for me. So asking again. All the keys of my Fn combination works except the brightness ones. ...
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How can I detect when a monitor is plugged in or unplugged?

Is there any event that is triggered when I plug in or out an external monitor into the DisplayPort of my laptop? ACPID and UDEV don't react at all. I'm using onboard graphics on an intel chip. Here ...