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Date:      Mon, 23 May 2005 13:33:32 -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:  <20050523203332.GA7705@ack.Berkeley.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <4290DCA7.3060807@pldrouin.net>
References:  <4290BB32.40100@pldrouin.net> <200505221215.44727.yauhwa@pacbell.net> <4290DCA7.3060807@pldrouin.net>

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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....:|

Mike



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