Re: Saving power on a laptop by turning off display backlight completely

2012-07-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mario Lang, le Fri 13 Jul 2012 19:06:04 +0200, a écrit : but this is not as interesting to some of us as a generic, console-compatible solution would be methinks. setterm -blank force should work. It's probably worth adding that information and for X11 on http://wiki.debian.org/accessibility

Re: Saving power on a laptop by turning off display backlight completely

2012-07-13 Thread Sebastian Humenda
Hello Samuel, Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org schrieb am 13.07.2012, 19:10 +0200: Mario Lang, le Fri 13 Jul 2012 19:06:04 +0200, a écrit : but this is not as interesting to some of us as a generic, console-compatible solution would be methinks. setterm -blank force should work. It's

Re: Saving power on a laptop by turning off display backlight completely

2012-07-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org (13/07/2012): setterm -blank force should work. It's probably worth adding that information and for X11 on http://wiki.debian.org/accessibility For X11, that should do: xset dpms force off Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Saving power on a laptop by turning off display backlight completely

2012-07-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sebastian Humenda, le Fri 13 Jul 2012 20:08:42 +0200, a écrit : should work. It's probably worth adding that information and for X11 on What's the difference to sudo vbetool dpms off setterm should be more portable, as it tells the kernel to turn the display off, whatever the actual hardware