Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 11:51:43 -0500 From: "John Musielewicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] display brightness
> >> > OTOH, the flourescent is *very* tightly bound - it's screwed and glued > >>and > >> > taped and generally very cuddled up to the screen :-) > >> > >>But it does come apart. A little fingernail polish remover or windex works > >>well to loosen glue. Do you know the address of the dimmer for the > >>backlight? Is it possible to completely shut it off? Is there any kind of > >>sdk availible for the libretto series? > > > >Dunno about an SDK but you might want to look to the Linux community and > >see if you can find some bits of source code that might help ... IIRC it IS > >possible to get Linux to control APM such that you CAN get some control of > >the backlight (at least I remember reading something to that effect on a > >webpage somewhere when I was looking for how to get Linux working on my > >L50) ... > > There's some windows code in Xin's pages (www.fixup.net) that I believe > controls the backlight all the way (IIRC). Somewhere around on the net > there's a listing of the bios calls for toshiba power control, too. > Got it. He also has a link to the bios calls. It looks like the backlight cannot be shut off totally through the bios. John ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
