On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 22:31 -1000, Peter Besenbruch wrote: > Just thought I would add my voice to those who report problems with XORG > 6.9.0.dsfg.1-4 and the ability to turn off the backlight to save the > screen and reduce power consumption. I have had the problem in two > laptops. The first, a Sony, runs a 2.4.30 kernel and uses a radeon > driver (xorg's built in version). Since the upgrade from 6.8.2, the > screen will neither blank or shut off in KDE. On a second laptop (a > Toshiba) with an i810 driver, the screen would blank, but the backlight > would not shut off. I compiled a 2.6.15 kernel for it, and the backlight > would shut off, but then turn back on.
It's been reported that at least some of these issues are due to the X server treating ACPI battery events as activity, does Option "NoPM" work around this? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
