Perhaps first find out what happens if you plug in an external monitor, and boot the laptop with the lid closed?
On Tue., 27 Mar. 2018, 19:36 Olaf Marzocchi, <[email protected]> wrote: > Is the laptop dedicated to smartos as last purpose before death? > In that case open it and try to put a physical switch in the power line, > if you have that kind of skills. > Best case: you can turn off the display at will > Worst case: you solder back the wires and it's back to the original state. > > Olaf > > > > Il 27 marzo 2018 07:50:22 CEST, Horse with no name <[email protected]> ha > scritto: >> >> 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
