From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 28 16:29:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93EF716A4CE for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:29:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78EBB43D46 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:29:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from midget.dons.net.au (ppp37-107.lns1.adl1.internode.on.net [150.101.37.107])i0T0TIxC038107; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:59:19 +1030 (CST) Received: from chowder.gsoft.com.au (root@localhost.dons.net.au [127.0.0.1]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0T0TEnY020771; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:59:15 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Scott Lambert , current@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:59:12 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200401272247.59306.freebsd-current@webteckies.org> <20040128.083215.114732225.imp@bsdimp.com> <20040128181110.GC775@laptop.lambertfam.org> In-Reply-To: <20040128181110.GC775@laptop.lambertfam.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401291059.12896.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -5 () IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.26 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) Subject: Re: API to turn off the display X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 00:29:24 -0000 On Thursday 29 January 2004 04:41, Scott Lambert wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 08:32:15AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > In message: <20040128045816.Y1089@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> > > > > Andre Guibert de Bruet writes: > > : Through functionality provided by the BIOS. A 30-second > > : search through the source would have shown the answer in > > : /usr/src/sys/i386/bios/apm.c:334 with apm_display(). > > > > My experience is that turning the display off via apm doesn't work on > > many laptops :-(. > > Is there anything that does; other than closing the lid? I find DPMS works for me.. xset dpms force off My Monitor section in the X config has.. Option "DPMS" My video chipset is an ATI Rage 128 Mobility in a Dell Inspiron 8000. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5