Re: Should green_saver.ko shut off a laptop's backlight?
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=114928cat= 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. -- John Baldwin ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Should green_saver.ko shut off a laptop's backlight?
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 Bartondo...@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=114928cat= 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? -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/ Index: splash.4 === --- 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 ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Should green_saver.ko shut off a laptop's backlight?
On Monday, November 29, 2010 4:10:02 pm Doug Barton wrote: 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 Bartondo...@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=114928cat= 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? I would say 'If the monitor and the video card's BIOS support it' because both things have to be true for green_saver to work. and/or implies that only one has to be true. I'm not sure the second paragraph is truly needed since I've seen it work fine with LCD's on other laptops and other external monitors as well. I think simply adding the text about the video card's BIOS is sufficient (and a definite improvement). -- John Baldwin ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Should green_saver.ko shut off a laptop's backlight?
On 11/29/2010 13:14, John Baldwin wrote: On Monday, November 29, 2010 4:10:02 pm Doug Barton wrote: 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 Bartondo...@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=114928cat= 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? I would say 'If the monitor and the video card's BIOS support it' because both things have to be true for green_saver to work. and/or implies that only one has to be true. I'm not sure the second paragraph is truly needed since I've seen it work fine with LCD's on other laptops and other external monitors as well. I think simply adding the text about the video card's BIOS is sufficient (and a definite improvement). Ok, done in r216065, thanks. I will update the PR soon'ish. Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/ ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Should green_saver.ko shut off a laptop's backlight?
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. Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/ ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Should green_saver.ko shut off a laptop's backlight?
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=114928cat= -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
