Re: Turning off screen completely
Eric Kjeldergaard <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:54:26 +0200, Jochen Gensch <[email protected]> wrote: > Bruce M Simpson wrote: > > > I have noticed that DPMS > > standby seems to turn off the backlight on my T40 whilst screensavers > > are running. > > Doesn't work here. I can run a xset dpms force standby, suspend... the > back light always stays on. I'm curious, what is the technical > background to this? Who / what controls this behaviour? BTW: what is > that radeon.ko module needed for? I thought X.org uses its own driver? There are 2 major factors that are involved. One is a driver from X. This driver is at the root of (almost) all display issues that people commonly write about. The other driver is a kernel driver for FreeBSD. This driver is used for many things often including power management and direct access. The relationship is not near this simple, IRL. It seems that I did see a mailing list submission and even a kernel patch, IIRC. Perhaps more googling (I know I'm not being much help in that part) could root out that message. I'll send it to you if I see it again. -- If I write a signature, my emails will appear more personalised. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"