On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > 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.
Yes there are such hooks. Setterm should trigger them when using fbdev/fbcon.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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