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If you download sleepless ( its freeware ), you will be able to at least shut the lid without getting stuck in sleep. Also, my screen isnt dimming. I use Shades to darken the screen which at least makes it appear dim. It also is free.

In the installer, have you gone through the Disk utility and set the HDD up as GUID? If you are using an OEM Lion build, it will not allow installs to an MBR partitioned hard drive unless you edit some files prior to installation. Also, Im not sure about the bios of your E6420, but you also need to go into the Bios and set the hard drive to AHCI mode. Hope that helps!

Hi all, Its me again ( Guest_Wayne ). I actually registered and will help here where I can. Ok, so now im looking into backlight and volume control. Ive found a few things that could possibly be implemented to give us both of them back. Im looking into the terminal commands to set brightness now. We can use a program like Quicksilver to assign a script to the brightness / volume buttons. Ive found some possibilities for the volume, and it actually does work, but it still acts the same as using the volume button in the top bar. It changes but doesnt seem to change the actual volume like an applications volume control would. Maybe someone a bit more familiar with the core could lend assistance? Heres what I have so far for volume Up ( Obviously swap + for - ) to get volume down. There has to be another place other than "Volume Settings " used as the individual applications controls which DO work properly. Im thinking this would work for the backlight too once i figure out the terminal commands for it as well. set currentVolume to output volume of (get volume settings) set volume output volume (currentVolume + 2) EDIT: I did find an pre-compiled C-script to control brightness but when I execute it via terminal im getting an error. Looking deeper into it. What I DONT get is that the function up/down keys work when I see the apple logo initially while its booting. http://mattdanger.net/2008/12/adjust-mac-os-x-display-brightness-from-the-terminal/ Upon execution I get error : ./brightness: failed to set brightness of display 0x28d512c0 (error -536