Is the laptop dedicated to smartos as last purpose before death? In that case open it and try to put a physical switch in the power line, if you have that kind of skills. Best case: you can turn off the display at will Worst case: you solder back the wires and it's back to the original state.
Olaf Il 27 marzo 2018 07:50:22 CEST, Horse with no name <[email protected]> ha scritto: >I understand, thank you for your quick response. I wish I had the >skills or >the $$ to support the project. Someday in the future for sure. > >Best regards >lOhit > >On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 8:42 PM, Garrett D'Amore <[email protected]> >wrote: > >> most laptops have special circuitry to control the display - >sometimes >> available via acpi. sometimes via other more esoteric means. >unfortunately >> illumos has very little support here - very often the details are >> proprietary and only available under NDA. (I recall this was true for >> Toshibas we added this support for nearly a decade ago.) You are >probably >> out of luck here. :/ If Linux can do it then there is at least a >chance >> someone could add it - but to be honest it’s probably not a priority. >> >> There are folks you can probably pay to develop this if information >is >> available - my own company for one - but I doubt its worth to you >what >> anyone qualified would charge you. :/ >> >> On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 8:06 PM Horse with no name ><[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Greetings, >>> >>> I am running smartos [ joyent_20180315T080815Z ] on Lenovo T420, I >have >>> a bunch of VMs running as well. Since head node and all the VMs are >>> accessed over network, I have no need to keep the lid open. >>> >>> So I have been trying to figure out how to turn the LCD off when I >close >>> the lid. I read the man page for /etc/power.conf and pmconfig but to >no >>> avail. What am I missing? >>> >>> Apologies if this has been answered before, I am a noob. >>> >>> Thanks in advance. >>> lOhit >>> >> *smartos-discuss* | Archives >> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now> | Modify >> <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> >> Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> >> > > ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
