> > > > speaking of which, do you know how to control the powersaving features > > of the framebuffer console? setterm does not work like it does on a > > VGA text terminal on i386. (aty128fb) > > fblevel is for that. AFAIK it goes from 0 (off) to 15 (maximum brightness).
For LCD displays, 0 will turn the backlight off. But that's not what setterm -powersave controls. AFAIK there's no choice in how to blank the fbcon display via setterm (are there blanking/powersave option hooks exported by the framebuffer drivers we could use for this?). fbcon just turns off backlight on LCDs, via atyfb_blank perhaps. Michael