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

That's the 95% solution, as the backlight is the big power user in the
display.  Ideally the display controller would be shut down as well, but
it's not much to worry about.

On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 21:21, Carl L. Gilbert wrote:
> Strange, because on my notebook all that turns off is the backlight, but
> the LCD stays on dimly...
> 
> CL
> 
> On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 18:43, Robert Vollmert wrote:
> > 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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