On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Vladimir Rusinov <vladi...@greenmice.info> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Marcin Zwd <marcin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Well, I've just upgraded my laptop. The old one has ati >> radeon r250 graphics card. On this card I can easily turn >> off the screen using nice program "radeantool" of course >> "xset dpms force off" worked as well. And "turn off" was >> permanent. It is worth to mention that I was using >> x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati opensource drivers... On the >> other hand, the new laptop has nvidia (quadro 135) aboard >> and now I'm using x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.82. >> Everything works fine except one tiny problem now if I turn >> off the screen and backlight after a few seconds the >> backlight is back on! > > Try following: > sleep 1 && xset dpms force off >
Thanks, I tried that before as well. Besides the screen is turning off, however just for a few seconds. My guess is that probably gnome or some other apps is turning the screen back on. So, it seems that only I have this kind of problem :( Marcin
