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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.