On 11/29/2010 07:09, John Baldwin wrote:
On Saturday, November 27, 2010 11:30:56 pm Adam Vande More wrote:
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Doug Barton<do...@freebsd.org> wrote:
My recollection is that green_saver should turn off an LCD backlight, but I
just loaded it up on my laptop and it's not doing so. It does remove the
text from the screen, but the backlight is still on (i.e., it is doing
exactly what blank_saver does).
When running X DPMS works on that same laptop, so I know the hardware is
capable. This is 9-current amd64 at r214025. Any suggestions are welcome.
It's never worked for me either and this has been around awhile.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=114928&cat=
green_saver just ask's your video card's BIOS to shut the screen off. If the
BIOS doesn't turn off the backlight, that is the BIOS's problem, not
something we can fix.
Ok, so does the attached seem reasonable?
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Index: splash.4
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--- splash.4 (revision 216062)
+++ splash.4 (working copy)
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd April 7, 2010
+.Dd November 29, 2010
.Dt SPLASH 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -114,7 +114,12 @@
.It Pa fire_saver.ko
A fire which becomes higher as load increases.
.It Pa green_saver.ko
-If the monitor supports power saving mode, it will be turned off.
+The screen will be blanked, similar to
+.Pa blank_saver.ko .
+If the monitor and/or the video card's BIOS support it,
+the screen will also be powered off.
+The latter may not work with LCD monitors,
+or monitors connected to a Digital Visual Interface (DVI) port.
.It Pa logo_saver.ko
Animated graphical
.Fx
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