Dear Alex
On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 11:02, Alex Martin wrote: > You can control dpms with a script when suspend to ram is called to manually > turn off the back light. For example in X something like this: > http://www.patoche.org/LTT/screen/00000042.html > How exactly I use it? I've tried xset dpms force standby, but the backlight still not off. At least not the same as apm suspend gave me. > Otherwise the kernel will use the DSDT from the bios. > I see. Gotta look further in this. But is that right that DSDT has nothing to do with ACPI suspend? (to mem not standby). > I am not familiar with the 2.6 series suspend to disk functionality, but I > used swsusp.sf.net (which is the source of the stock 2.6 kernel code I > think) and patched a 2.4.24 kernel, enabled it in the kernel config and > compiled it. It provided for updating of hwclock. You may need to do a > little fiddling (swsusp config files) to get the clock set right. Maybe the > 2.6.x stock code has similar config files. > I tried swsusp. But it does not works for my 2.6.4 vanilla kernel or 2.6.3 Debian Kernel. Something about cannot find /proc/swsusp (I forget exact path) file. Any clue? > Maybe mention what kernel version you are using and what hardware you are > using. > IBM Thinkpad T30. Needs lspci -v -v -v output? TIA. Best Regards. -arief -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
