Anyone? Or am I SOL and my old laptop turned server is going to have its backlight on all the time?
-Rhonda On Sat, 9 Nov 2024 11:29:44 -0800, rho...@write-on.org wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been trying to figure out how to get my old laptop to blank its > screen when I'm not using it, so it can be a small home server. It > *should* be easy, but wsconsctl display.brightness doesn't seem to > exist at all, so I can't set it to anything. > > After going around in circles between abl (installed, apparently? dmesg > says "abl0 at acpi0: PNLF (backlight)" and the documentation for abl, > acpi, and and a few other things, the only thing I have to show for it > is that my GPU & video card isn't supported (Nvidia) - which since I'm > not planning to run X11 isn't a big deal, I still have a console. I > don't *think* the GPU controls the backlight, anyway? > > Does anybody have suggestions as to where I could look to somehow > activate the abl driver so I can actually change the backlight > brightness? Or if it's active as dmesg seems to be saying, how to get > display.brightness to even show up as something I can try to control. > > Thanks, > -Rhonda >
