Re: Suspend stuff on TOSHIBA laptop.

2012-10-02 Thread Aaron Mason
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Aaron Mason wrote: > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Mo Libden wrote: >> Tue, 04 Sep 2012 03:36:50 -0400 от Ted Unangst : >>> On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 16:23, David Walker wrote: >>> > I've set the options in wsconsctl.conf to blank the screen which also >>> > work

Re: Suspend stuff on TOSHIBA laptop.

2012-10-02 Thread Aaron Mason
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Mo Libden wrote: > Tue, 04 Sep 2012 03:36:50 -0400 от Ted Unangst : >> On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 16:23, David Walker wrote: >> > I've set the options in wsconsctl.conf to blank the screen which also >> > works but this thing has I think what's called "a backlight" wh

Re[2]: Suspend stuff on TOSHIBA laptop.

2012-10-02 Thread Mo Libden
Tue, 04 Sep 2012 03:36:50 -0400 от Ted Unangst : > On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 16:23, David Walker wrote: > > I've set the options in wsconsctl.conf to blank the screen which also > > works but this thing has I think what's called "a backlight" which > > means the screen constantly glows. I'm planning

Re: Suspend stuff on TOSHIBA laptop.

2012-09-04 Thread Zé Loff
On Sep 4, 2012, at 11:57 AM, David Walker wrote: > I've tried switching displays to no avail. You can always try to go "the hardware way" and make a dummy VGA plug to fool your laptop into thinking there's a external monitor connected to it... (never tried it, and not quite sure I would, either.

Re: Suspend stuff on TOSHIBA laptop.

2012-09-04 Thread David Walker
Zé_Loff >On my Tecra M5 (NVIDIA G72m GPU) I manage to turn off the backlight by hitting >Fn+F5 (the 'switch displays' hotkey). I have to hit it a couple of times again >to get it back on, because it cycles through all possible combinations, but it >works... I have no idea what makes it switch, b

Re: Suspend stuff on TOSHIBA laptop.

2012-09-04 Thread Zé Loff
On 04/09/2012, at 09:55, David Walker wrote: > On 04/09/2012, patrick keshishian wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Ted Unangst wrote: >>> I've never seen a laptop that kept the light on when the lid was >>> closed. Is it really still on? > > Yes. Whether or not the screen blanks I can

Re: Suspend stuff on TOSHIBA laptop.

2012-09-04 Thread David Walker
On 04/09/2012, patrick keshishian wrote: > On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Ted Unangst wrote: >> I've never seen a laptop that kept the light on when the lid was >> closed. Is it really still on? Yes. Whether or not the screen blanks I can see the backlight glow with the lid closed. If I put i

Re: Suspend stuff on TOSHIBA laptop.

2012-09-04 Thread patrick keshishian
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 16:23, David Walker wrote: [...] >> Is there a way to turn off the backlight? >> Is there anything else I can do to sedate this machine? > > I've never seen a laptop that kept the light on when the lid was > closed. Is

Re: Suspend stuff on TOSHIBA laptop.

2012-09-04 Thread Ted Unangst
On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 16:23, David Walker wrote: > Hi. > > I'm trying to deploy a slave nameserver on a laptop to sit at somebodies > home. > It runs NSD and other than salving and serving queries it polls an NTP > server and that's it. It doesn't run X11 ... > Functionally it all works and I'm

Suspend stuff on TOSHIBA laptop.

2012-09-04 Thread David Walker
Hi. I'm trying to deploy a slave nameserver on a laptop to sit at somebodies home. It runs NSD and other than salving and serving queries it polls an NTP server and that's it. It doesn't run X11 ... Functionally it all works and I'm looking at keeping this thing quiet and dark so it's cheap and un