On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Sebastian Yepes [ESN] wrote: > Any one know how to turn off the screen on a notebook i mean totally > off, Not the dpms > > The problem is that when i close the lid it stays on and produces to > much heat.. > > 5-Current on dell inspiron 8500 (with AML patch)
More sucky answers from the sucky answer brigade: if I close my notebook lid, the screen remains powered on. But if I open the lid, the screen powers off until I swap virtual consoles between X and normal consoles. So when I want the screen to turn off, I open and close my notebook twice. :-) There seems to be a message here that syscons and other bits need to learn more about dpms, and that acpi needs to provide the necessary events (and time) to the device tree to allow proper power management (and may not currently do that). This came up a number of times at the dev summit last week. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Associates Laboratories _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
