Re: [ACPI-sppt] how to turn the display-backlight off?

Hi,

On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:20:09AM +0200, tobias magerl wrote:
> when ideling the display turns to black, but the backlight of
> the screen wont turn off. as im running this notebook as
> little server, running 24/7 in my bedroom, this is a real pain =(

is this when running X, or on the console? In X, you could try running

$ xset dpms force off

to see if the display can be set turned with DPMS. If so, I think you
don't even need any ACPI support. I seem to remember that there's some
kind of kernel option to blank the console with DPMS, too.

Cheers
Robert



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