Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 00:46:01 -0700 From: Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.Berkeley.EDU> To: Pierre-Luc Drouin <pldrouin@pldrouin.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to turn off the backlight? Message-ID: <20050525074601.GA11790@ack.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <20050523203332.GA7705@ack.Berkeley.EDU> References: <4290BB32.40100@pldrouin.net> <200505221215.44727.yauhwa@pacbell.net> <4290DCA7.3060807@pldrouin.net> <20050523203332.GA7705@ack.Berkeley.EDU>
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On May 23, "To Pierre-Luc Drouin" wrote: > On May 22, "Pierre-Luc Drouin" wrote: > > > Yes, I have it. But I thought there was a way to turn the backlight off > > from the terminal? > > I have had some success with: > > `xset dpms force off` > > But for whatever reason, my dell D800 won't turn the backlight off in X, > only when running text-only. You could work around this by switching to > a different console right before sleep, but again my dell has another > problem where it won't go *back* to video mode once it's been there; i.e. > the screen whites out and the box crashes. Maybe these are all nvidia > driver issues, which I have to use to address the fact that an external > monitor won't work with the nv driver....:| I just remembered I have this backwards: The backlight *will* turn off in X with the above command, but not at a plain console.
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