In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, m.nine.six <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> if it's a thinkpad (ibm) there is a tool called tpctl and is more or > less equivalent to the ibm's orinigal dos tool ps2.exe and with this > tool you can change the bios settings while running the machine. Sorry, it's not an IBM. I'll test the suggestin with xset though. > but i guess turning of the backlight is an bios option that you can't > change with software. And no, it's not "just an BIOS option" as SuSE manages to turn off the backlight with the same configuration. So I think Debian should be able to as well. Greetings, Stefan. -- Stefan Bellon * <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * <http://www.sbellon.de/> If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

