Re: [Server-devel] turn off backlight on XS-on-XO1

2010-03-03 Thread Paul Fox
anna wrote: > I'd appreciate a command to blank the screen. I installed olpc-kbdshim from when you installed olpc-kbdshim i think you should have also gotten a new command to control the display: olpc-brightness, which takes "up", "down", "min", "max", or a number between 0 and 15 as an argumen

Re: [Server-devel] turn off backlight on XS-on-XO1

2010-03-02 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 09:12:41PM -0800, rihowa...@gmail.com wrote: > This is documented at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/DCON_Linux_Driver No, only the DCON specifics are documented. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Server-devel mailing li

Re: [Server-devel] turn off backlight on XS-on-XO1

2010-03-02 Thread rihowa...@gmail.com
This is documented at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/DCON_Linux_Driver rihowa...@gmail.com On Mar 2, 2010, at 8:42 PM, James Cameron wrote: > On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 09:00:50PM -0600, Anna wrote: >> I'd appreciate a command to blank the screen. > > Your subject line mentions the backlight, and

Re: [Server-devel] turn off backlight on XS-on-XO1

2010-03-02 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 09:00:50PM -0600, Anna wrote: > I'd appreciate a command to blank the screen. Your subject line mentions the backlight, and blanking the screen is potentially a different task. I've tested an XO-1 with build 802b1. If you mean the backlight, you can manually control this

Re: [Server-devel] turn off backlight on XS-on-XO1

2010-03-02 Thread Anna
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Paul Fox wrote: > martin wrote: > > Good question. Could we run Paul's power daemon configured to dim > > screen completely if there is no VT user actvity? > > yes, that would probably work. there's no X11 requirement in kbdshim > or powerd. but to be clear:

Re: [Server-devel] turn off backlight on XS-on-XO1

2010-03-02 Thread Paul Fox
martin wrote: > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Paul Fox wrote: > > yes, that would probably work. there's no X11 requirement in kbdshim > > or powerd. but to be clear: is the requirement for blanking after > > an idle period? or do you just want a command to blank the screen? > > becaus

Re: [Server-devel] turn off backlight on XS-on-XO1

2010-03-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
Good question. Could we run Paul's power daemon configured to dim screen completely if there is no VT user actvity? cc' ing Paul and devel - m On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 2:26 AM, Sameer Verma wrote: > Is there any way to turn off the backlight on a XS-on-XO1? Keyboard > control doesn't do it. >

[Server-devel] turn off backlight on XS-on-XO1

2010-03-01 Thread Sameer Verma
Is there any way to turn off the backlight on a XS-on-XO1? Keyboard control doesn't do it. Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Campus Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://cbs.sfsu.edu/ http://is.sfsu.edu/