> > Would "xset dpms force off" have [tested] it?
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Kevin Brosius wrote:
> Oh, is that the command you used to test it? Yes, that would do it.
> Did you verify the new module was loaded by checking the log file for
> the new version?
Kenneth R. Crudup Sr. SW Engineer ...
> The down side... The ViRGE chip controls the LCD, but I don't think it
> has to control the backlight. I've got documentation for the ViRGE, but
> no idea how to access the backlight if it isn't controlled by the ViRGE
Question- can you do output selection via the MX? I can manually shut down
the backlight if I use an Fn-key combination to shunt the video to the external
VGA connector. If that's done via the ViRGE MX, then we might have a way to
do this for my laptop's broken BIOS.
-Kenny
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