I understand, thank you for your quick response. I wish I had the skills or the $$ to support the project. Someday in the future for sure.
Best regards lOhit On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 8:42 PM, Garrett D'Amore <[email protected]> wrote: > most laptops have special circuitry to control the display - sometimes > available via acpi. sometimes via other more esoteric means. unfortunately > illumos has very little support here - very often the details are > proprietary and only available under NDA. (I recall this was true for > Toshibas we added this support for nearly a decade ago.) You are probably > out of luck here. :/ If Linux can do it then there is at least a chance > someone could add it - but to be honest it’s probably not a priority. > > There are folks you can probably pay to develop this if information is > available - my own company for one - but I doubt its worth to you what > anyone qualified would charge you. :/ > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 8:06 PM Horse with no name <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Greetings, >> >> I am running smartos [ joyent_20180315T080815Z ] on Lenovo T420, I have >> a bunch of VMs running as well. Since head node and all the VMs are >> accessed over network, I have no need to keep the lid open. >> >> So I have been trying to figure out how to turn the LCD off when I close >> the lid. I read the man page for /etc/power.conf and pmconfig but to no >> avail. What am I missing? >> >> Apologies if this has been answered before, I am a noob. >> >> Thanks in advance. >> lOhit >> > *smartos-discuss* | Archives > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now> | Modify > <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> > Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> > ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
