Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Power management or something?
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I have a fresh install of Gentoo on my laptop and I'm having some trouble with the backlight that I think is related to the screen going into some sort of power save mode or something along those lines. Are there power management settings somewhere or something similar? I'm on xfce4. - Grant I found another clue. It happens whenever I shut my laptop screen, even for a moment. Is this some kind of sleep mode? Might I be able to disable it in the kernel somewhere? - Grant I had that same issue with closing the screen. I think my solution was a KDE setting which won't help you unless there is something similar with XFCE. I'll boot the laptop and see if I Can spot what I did. Ah the things we have time for when watching Hulu on a Sunday morning... ;-) Back later, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Power management or something?
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I have a fresh install of Gentoo on my laptop and I'm having some trouble with the backlight that I think is related to the screen going into some sort of power save mode or something along those lines. Are there power management settings somewhere or something similar? I'm on xfce4. - Grant I found another clue. It happens whenever I shut my laptop screen, even for a moment. Is this some kind of sleep mode? Might I be able to disable it in the kernel somewhere? - Grant I had that same issue with closing the screen. I think my solution was a KDE setting which won't help you unless there is something similar with XFCE. I'll boot the laptop and see if I Can spot what I did. Ah the things we have time for when watching Hulu on a Sunday morning... ;-) Back later, Mark Keeping in mind that I'm _not_ using or even testing backlighting, the place where I controlled whether the laptop got screen locked or hibernated was in the KDE System Settings app where I disabled all such stuff. Now the screen just goes black when the lid is closed, saving some power, but nothing locks, sleeps, hibernates or any other such response. I did nothing in the kernel that I see. HTH, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Power management or something?
I have a fresh install of Gentoo on my laptop and I'm having some trouble with the backlight that I think is related to the screen going into some sort of power save mode or something along those lines. Are there power management settings somewhere or something similar? I'm on xfce4. - Grant I found another clue. It happens whenever I shut my laptop screen, even for a moment. Is this some kind of sleep mode? Might I be able to disable it in the kernel somewhere? - Grant I had that same issue with closing the screen. I think my solution was a KDE setting which won't help you unless there is something similar with XFCE. I'll boot the laptop and see if I Can spot what I did. Ah the things we have time for when watching Hulu on a Sunday morning... ;-) Back later, Mark Keeping in mind that I'm _not_ using or even testing backlighting, the place where I controlled whether the laptop got screen locked or hibernated was in the KDE System Settings app where I disabled all such stuff. Now the screen just goes black when the lid is closed, saving some power, but nothing locks, sleeps, hibernates or any other such response. I did nothing in the kernel that I see. HTH, Mark Thanks Mark. I installed xfce4-power-manager thinking it would do the trick for sure, but unfortunately the behavior is the same even after messing with the settings. Weird - Grant
