Hi, For both powersaving and privacy bennefits I'm trying to turn my laptop's screen off. This was easy as vbetool dpms off on my old machine, but now I get an error with vbetool on the new machine (Lenovo thinkpad X230): 7204a038:5154166: 00 ILLEGAL X86 OPCODE! halt_sys: file , line 91711232 Function not supported
I looked at the debian wiki and use the script provided to turn off the screen in the GUI and the setterm command to do it for the console. However I still have some problems. 1. How to turn back on the screen (for both methods)? This might be required on the fly when someone needs to see what I'm doing. 2. I notice when I switch from console to gui the screen can come back on. Is there a solution to this? Is there a place I can put a call to the script to have it called every time I switch virtual consoles including to number 7 the gui. 3. I no setterm appears to be useless under a screen session. Does this mean I'll just have to open another virtual console or drop out from the screen session to toggle the screen on and off if I need too? Thanks, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
