Re: reformatting laptop & ACPI: special partitions?
"Kevin Oberman" <[email protected]>
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> From: [email protected] (Douglas K. Rand) > Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 16:33:20 -0500 > > Kevin> Some systems also support a light sleep which only stops the > Kevin> CPU and turns off the display. This one still drains the > Kevin> battery pretty quickly. > > Are there any "screen saver" options for ACPI laptops? None of the > Dell laptops I've had support DPMS, and being able to just turn off > the screen after a few minutes of unuse would save alot. > It's FreeBSD that has lacked support of VESA DPMS. If you are running CURRENT, John Baldwin has added VESA DPMS to the acpi_video kernel module. I suspect that this will work on you system, but I am never positive of anything on any other laptop. google on acpi_video_dpms.patch in Google Groups. I don't know when this might be committed to CURRENT, let alone MFCed to STABLE. If your Dell really does not support DPMS, I'm not sure where to try. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"