From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 28 13:40:04 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 BF7DB16A4CE for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:40:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.lambertfam.org (www.lambertfam.org [216.223.208.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABFE743D54 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:40:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lambert@lambertfam.org) Received: from laptop.lambertfam.org (ool-182db8f6.dyn.optonline.net [24.45.184.246]) by mail.lambertfam.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30E4C34D77 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:40:01 -0500 (EST) Received: by laptop.lambertfam.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D93CBC0F5; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:40:00 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:40:00 -0500 From: Scott Lambert To: current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040128214000.GF775@laptop.lambertfam.org> Mail-Followup-To: current@freebsd.org References: <200401272247.59306.freebsd-current@webteckies.org> <20040128.083215.114732225.imp@bsdimp.com> <20040128181110.GC775@laptop.lambertfam.org> <200401281319.02208.jhb@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200401281319.02208.jhb@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i 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: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 21:40:04 -0000 On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 01:19:02PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday 28 January 2004 01:11 pm, Scott Lambert wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 08:32:15AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > > In message: <20040128045816.Y1089@alpha.siliconlandmark.com> > > > : 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? > > Yes, there should be. ACPI has an entire set of methods devoted to > manging displays including turning the displays on and off. We just > don't support those yet. Ok. As long as there is that possibility. I'm not in a hurry. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing out on current capabilities. ACPI is still black magic to me. Someday I'll sit down and try to understand it. -- Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix SysAdmin lambert@lambertfam.org