On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 12:12:09PM +0800, Nicolas Boichat wrote: > Matt Kraai wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 10:45:28AM +1000, Nick Hoffman wrote: > >> On 28/03/07, Matt Kraai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I have a MacBook Pro running Debian sid. When it's idle, the backlight > >>> stays on. Is there a way to fix this? If not, which part of the system > >>> is usually responsible for turning it off? > >> hey Matt. did you receive any responses to this email of yours, or did you > >> figure out a solution? > > > > No and no, unfortunately. Do you have any suggestions? > > It's likely that for some reason DPMS is not working properly.
Thanks for the suggestion. I played around with xset (e.g., xset dpms force off), but I wasn't able to make the backlight turn off. I also don't remember having to do anything like this on my old laptop. Is there a kernel feature that also does something like this? -- Matt ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Mactel-linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users
