From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 28 16:40:41 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 683B316A4CE for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:40:41 -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 2F94A43D31 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:40:39 -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])i0T0eZxC049478; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:10:37 +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 i0T0eUnY020899; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:10:31 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Mark Sergeant Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:10:22 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200401272247.59306.freebsd-current@webteckies.org> <200401291059.12896.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <1075336426.9856.11.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1075336426.9856.11.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401291110.22226.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) cc: Scott Lambert cc: current@freebsd.org 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 00:40:41 -0000 On Thursday 29 January 2004 11:03, Mark Sergeant wrote: > > My video chipset is an ATI Rage 128 Mobility in a Dell Inspiron 8000. > > I use the above, one minor thing though, the backlight on the laptop > stays on (NEC Versa S900 with ATI radeon 9000 mobility) yet under > windows the backlight turns off, still haven't got it worked out :/ It's totally at the whim of your BIOS I believe :( Those ACPI video patches worked here -> [chowder 11:08] ~/projects/acpi_vid-20031013 >sysctl hw.acpi.video hw.acpi.video.crt0.active: 0 hw.acpi.video.lcd0.active: 1 Although if I turn off the LCD by setting it to 0 it wakes up when I press a key, but the sysctl remains set to 0. -- 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