Any news of a fix for this? As with bug 37364, 'xset dpms force off' clears the display but does not turn it off.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg- video-i810/+bug/37364/ I have to use 'sudo vbetool dpms off' to actually switch off the backlight. This is troublesome, because on both Edgy & Feisty at the time of writing xscreensaver never disables the backlight in accordance with your power management settings. I am thus forced to either close the lid or suspend to RAM before going away for any length of time if I don't want the backlight to carry on burning. -- Laptop backlight stays always on https://launchpad.net/bugs/71368 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
