On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 14:15:27 PDT, Tony Godshall writes:
>Sure does. Closed it to a tiny crack and its still on.
>Doesn't seem to be any such switch on the OB. (On many
>machines closing the lid autmatically suspends it,
fwiw, my OB6k has a bios option for this kind of stuff.
>the backlight. Yet! But after I left the OB on a console
>for a while to write the other message about the showkey
>results I discovered that it does turn the backlight off
>when the console blanking code kicks in (is this a kernel
>feature)? Cool. Thanks Linus! Thanks Heather!
man setterm, and see your kernel configs: CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK
governs this behaviour.
>> If it has dpms features you might be able to convince X to put it in
>> that mode - however, running X may itself steal juice, can't say if that
>> would be a win.
at least the xfree86 server (3.3.6++) for
the mach rage something in my OB6k states "dpms: experimental" and
does nothing whatsoever to switch off the backlight.
regards
az
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