From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 08:20:27 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 23FE516A4CE for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:20:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from postman.ripe.net (postman.ripe.net [193.0.0.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D80543D45 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:20:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ms@dell-laptop.6bone.nl) Received: by postman.ripe.net (Postfix, from userid 8) id 862094EDFE; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:20:24 +0100 (CET) Received: from birch.ripe.net (birch.ripe.net [193.0.1.96]) by postman.ripe.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CB124E3E3 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:20:24 +0100 (CET) Received: from dell-laptop.6bone.nl (cow.ripe.net [193.0.1.239]) by birch.ripe.net (8.12.10/8.11.6) with SMTP id i0TGKO0G028094 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:20:24 +0100 Received: (nullmailer pid 45034 invoked by uid 1001); Thu, 29 Jan 2004 16:20:23 -0000 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:20:23 +0100 From: Mark Santcroos To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040129162023.GA42359@laptop.6bone.nl> References: <200401272247.59306.freebsd-current@webteckies.org> <20040128.083215.114732225.imp@bsdimp.com> <20040128181110.GC775@laptop.lambertfam.org> <200401291059.12896.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <1075336426.9856.11.camel@localhost> <1075339288.12013.232.camel@mobius.int.thebadger.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1075339288.12013.232.camel@mobius.int.thebadger.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Handles: MS6-6BONE, MS18417-RIPE X-RIPE-Spam-Level: X-RIPE-Spam-Status: N 0.491361 X-RIPE-Signature: 4d4d6fbc29de85115a58affd6c9c3ec3 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 16:20:27 -0000 On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 01:21:28AM +0000, James Green wrote: > > > > > > I find DPMS works for me.. > > > > > > xset dpms force off > > > > > > My Monitor section in the X config has.. > > > Option "DPMS" > > > > > > 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 :/ > > > There is a fix for DPMS for the Radeon 9000. The bug report/patch etc. > is here: http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26 > See comment #10 for details. ports/x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server-snap/ has the fix too, I just tried it and it works for my Latitude C640. Which leads me to think... can we do this with ACPI only or do we need to do what DPMS is doing?? I think it is the latter. Mark