chris wrote: > Hi, > > > my understanding from watching discussions here was that when the > > system went to sleep it powered down the display, because there > > was no way to set a timer to wake the system up a little later to > > then turn off the display. > > Your understanding is incorrect, I'm afraid. We do not power down the > display going into idle-suspend. >
but to be clear, david's right that once the laptop's in this state there's no way to turn off the screen automatically later on -- the system must be re-awakened with user input, and then put to sleep in one of the usual (power switch or lid) ways. this is simply a limitation of current s/w. paul =--------------------- paul fox, p...@laptop.org _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
