Re: Problems with display power management

2005-07-28 Thread Thomas Halva Labella
Marc Koschewski wrote: >Hi Halva, > >the lcd module is not the backlight module. The module managing >backlight is named backlight. ;) > > Ehm... ops... Is there a wall where I can go and hit my head? ... Just a bit... :-) Luckily (?), loading the module backlight does not solve the problem. M

Re: Problems with display power management

2005-07-28 Thread Marc Koschewski
* Thomas Halva Labella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-07-28 10:31:02 +0200]: > A. F. Cano wrote: > > >The question is (I think), how to turn off the backlight via software? > >This might be an issue of bad firmware (Dell firmware is notoriously > >linux-unfriendly, not to say buggy) and/or bad ACPI su

Re: Problems with display power management

2005-07-28 Thread Thomas Halva Labella
A. F. Cano wrote: >The question is (I think), how to turn off the backlight via software? >This might be an issue of bad firmware (Dell firmware is notoriously >linux-unfriendly, not to say buggy) and/or bad ACPI support in same, >in which case there might not be an easy solution. Anyone have a >

Re: Problems with display power management

2005-07-27 Thread A. F. Cano
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:12:41PM +0200, Thomas Halva Labella wrote: > Hi again! > > I already posted something on this list, but I did not receive many > answers. I hope to be luckier now:-) I have the same problem. Different laptop, display and kernel. In my case, Dell 8600, nvidia 4400go and

Problems with display power management

2005-07-27 Thread Thomas Halva Labella
Hi again! I already posted something on this list, but I did not receive many answers. I hope to be luckier now:-) The short version of the problem is the following: when the screen of my laptop should switch off, instead of black it becomes white! A bit longer version: it is not 100 percent whi