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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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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 fix my final ACPI problem. :) Could we get a committer to take a look. This seems like something that would be nice to get into 5.3. -- Anish Mistry [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBAkV26xqA5ziudZT0RAl7dAJ4n4Lyu/0FnR8j2o/WhD62YW+EjGACfRLwu xaWD3xhwFzd05tPLBQ73VCk= =sS3r -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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