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Date:      Thu, 29 Apr 2004 15:55:12 -0400
From:      Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: VESA DPMS Driver
Message-ID:  <200404291555.38309.mistry.7@osu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <40909090.3050108@cs.unisa.edu.au>
References:  <40909090.3050108@cs.unisa.edu.au>

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On Thursday 29 April 2004 01:20 am, Benjamin Close wrote:
> Hi All,
>     I like many have suffered the battery drain of the laptop screen
> remaining on while the system is suspended. I've created a driver that
> allows the screen to be shutdown by DPMS provided acpi supports video
> mode changes. Beware, this is my first kernel driver so it's nothing
> great. Hopefully it will help someone with enough knowledge build a
> better driver.
>
> It's a loadable kernel module and the only tweak required to get it
> compiling should be in the Makefile.
>
> You can grab it from:
> http://www.clearchain.com/people/benjsc/download/vesa_dpms.tar.gz
> A URL as the list strips attachments.
>
> Cheers,
>     Benjamin
Thanks Benjamin!  This is exactly what I've been hoping for.  It seems to f=
ix=20
my final ACPI problem. :)  Could we get a committer to take a look.  This=20
seems like something that would be nice to get into 5.3.

=2D-=20
Anish Mistry

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