On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Remy Indebetouw wrote: > I'd like to turn off the backlight when I'm away for the day, but leave > unsuspended so I can connect back from work via the cable modem. > > There was a similar question last summer and the suggestion to switch to > CRT; something like that would be fine with me, except that the fn-f8 that > would appear to accomplish this on my Dell I7K doesn't do anything.
Does fn-d work for the 7k? This turns off the display on my I4k. Also, I tell the bios to turn the display off after 30 minutes with both AC and battery, and it works fine with me. Its a bit annoying that I can't seem to convince X4.1.x to turn the backlight off, it just want's to blank the screen instead. I can't help you with the thing not switching displays. It Works For Me(tm). > Also, the Battery-Operated mini-HOWTO seems dated and not always > applicable to debian (e.g. no update call in /etc/inittab), so any > suggestions for better advice on reducing syncing and flushing intervals > w/o a full suspend would also be appreciated. apt-get install noflushd -- TimC
