On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Marcin Zwd <marcin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I've just upgraded my laptop. The old one has ati > radeon r250 graphics card. On this card I can easily turn > off the screen using nice program "radeantool" of course > "xset dpms force off" worked as well. And "turn off" was > permanent. It is worth to mention that I was using > x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati opensource drivers... On the > other hand, the new laptop has nvidia (quadro 135) aboard > and now I'm using x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.82. > Everything works fine except one tiny problem now if I turn > off the screen and backlight after a few seconds the > backlight is back on! Try following: sleep 1 && xset dpms force off -- Vladimir Rusinov http://greenmice.info/
