Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:19:35 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: VESA DPMS Driver Message-ID: <200404301619.35517.jhb@FreeBSD.org> 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. I merged this into the acpi_video(4) driver (which already takes over ACPI devices with a DOD, etc. handle) so that the two drivers aren't mutually exclusive. Unfortunately, my laptop doesn't have any _DOD, etc. methods for its video device so I can't test it. It's somewhat hackish as only i386 has VM86 support, but the patch is at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/acpi_video_dpms.patch -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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