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Date:      Sat, 20 Nov 2004 21:57:09 -0500
From:      Dan Pelleg <daniel+fbdsm@pelleg.org>
To:        Clive Lin <clive@tongi.org>
Cc:        mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: acpi_video, 5.3-RELEASE, ThinkPad X31?
Message-ID:  <16800.1029.840645.192775@lank.wburn>
In-Reply-To: <20041120141752.GB933@tongi.org>
References:  <20041117224401.CFA2643D55@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <419BD96B.7060108@gmx.de> <u2smzxeayr1.fsf@lank.wburn> <20041120141752.GB933@tongi.org>

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Clive Lin writes:
 > On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 06:01:38AM -0500, Dan Pelleg wrote:
 > > Jochen Gensch <incmc@gmx.de> writes:
 > > > Brad Karp wrote:
 > > >> Are there known problems with acpi_video attaching on ThinkPads of some
 > > >> models? How about known fixes?
 > > On my X31 (2672-CBU) I see this in dmesg:
 > > acpi_video0: <ACPI video extension> port 0x3000-0x30ff mem 0xc0100000-0xc010ffff,0xe0000000-0xe7ffffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1
 > > However the backlight stays on on suspend.
 > 
 > If you guys do not care about running X, a trick floating around
 > -current, `xset dpms force off`, does the right thing.
 > 

Thanks! that does the trick for me. The quick and dirty hack is just this
line in /etc/rc.suspend:

su MAINUSER -c "xset -display :0 dpms force off"

Some cleaner ones are discussed at:
http://freebsd.rambler.ru/bsdmail/freebsd-current_2004/msg02374.html

--
Dan Pelleg



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