> > > Does 'xset dpms force off' turn off the backlight on that machine?
> > First thing I tried.
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Kevin Brosius wrote:
> Does your laptop support apm in the BIOS at all?
Yeah, but this @#(&^* laptop has no "Backlight" setting in the APM setup
like my other laptops did; I used to rely on that to shut my backlight
off. I got *this* laptop used and for cheap, and this is the only bad
part of it.
> Out of curiosity I've added code to turn off the LCD panel to my latest
> driver version. I don't know if it will do anything for your
> backlight. It also might not restore the screen after a suspend. If
> you'd like to give it a shot let me know what happens.
Yeah, I'd like it.
Is it on your site in your .signature? (I'm not running the CVS build BTW.)
> When trying a test where you may loose the screen, either 'sync' your
> disks just before going into suspend, or have a remote connection
> available so you can perform a clean shutdown.
Heh. Way ahead of ya: "Alt-PrtSc-S" followed by "Alt-PrtSc-U" saveth all. :-)
-Kenny
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