Re[2]: Suspend stuff on TOSHIBA laptop.

2012-10-02 Thread Mo Libden
Tue, 04 Sep 2012 03:36:50 -0400 от Ted Unangst t...@tedunangst.com: On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 16:23, David Walker wrote: I've set the options in wsconsctl.conf to blank the screen which also works but this thing has I think what's called a backlight which means the screen constantly glows.

Re: Suspend stuff on TOSHIBA laptop.

2012-10-02 Thread Aaron Mason
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Mo Libden m0lib...@mail.ru wrote: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 03:36:50 -0400 от Ted Unangst t...@tedunangst.com: On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 16:23, David Walker wrote: I've set the options in wsconsctl.conf to blank the screen which also works but this thing has I think

Re: Suspend stuff on TOSHIBA laptop.

2012-10-02 Thread Aaron Mason
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Aaron Mason simplersolut...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Mo Libden m0lib...@mail.ru wrote: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 03:36:50 -0400 от Ted Unangst t...@tedunangst.com: On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 16:23, David Walker wrote: I've set the options in

Suspend stuff on TOSHIBA laptop.

2012-09-04 Thread David Walker
Hi. I'm trying to deploy a slave nameserver on a laptop to sit at somebodies home. It runs NSD and other than salving and serving queries it polls an NTP server and that's it. It doesn't run X11 ... Functionally it all works and I'm looking at keeping this thing quiet and dark so it's cheap and

Re: Suspend stuff on TOSHIBA laptop.

2012-09-04 Thread Ted Unangst
On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 16:23, David Walker wrote: Hi. I'm trying to deploy a slave nameserver on a laptop to sit at somebodies home. It runs NSD and other than salving and serving queries it polls an NTP server and that's it. It doesn't run X11 ... Functionally it all works and I'm

Re: Suspend stuff on TOSHIBA laptop.

2012-09-04 Thread patrick keshishian
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Ted Unangst t...@tedunangst.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 16:23, David Walker wrote: [...] Is there a way to turn off the backlight? Is there anything else I can do to sedate this machine? I've never seen a laptop that kept the light on when the lid was

Re: Suspend stuff on TOSHIBA laptop.

2012-09-04 Thread David Walker
On 04/09/2012, patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Ted Unangst t...@tedunangst.com wrote: I've never seen a laptop that kept the light on when the lid was closed. Is it really still on? Yes. Whether or not the screen blanks I can see the backlight

Re: Suspend stuff on TOSHIBA laptop.

2012-09-04 Thread Zé Loff
On 04/09/2012, at 09:55, David Walker davidianwal...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/09/2012, patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Ted Unangst t...@tedunangst.com wrote: I've never seen a laptop that kept the light on when the lid was closed. Is it really

Re: Suspend stuff on TOSHIBA laptop.

2012-09-04 Thread David Walker
Zé_Loff zeloff () zeloff ! org On my Tecra M5 (NVIDIA G72m GPU) I manage to turn off the backlight by hitting Fn+F5 (the 'switch displays' hotkey). I have to hit it a couple of times again to get it back on, because it cycles through all possible combinations, but it works... I have no idea what

Re: Suspend stuff on TOSHIBA laptop.

2012-09-04 Thread Zé Loff
On Sep 4, 2012, at 11:57 AM, David Walker wrote: I've tried switching displays to no avail. You can always try to go the hardware way and make a dummy VGA plug to fool your laptop into thinking there's a external monitor connected to it... (never tried it, and not quite sure I would,