From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 11:41:02 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 189C216A4D0 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:41:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD08B43D41 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:40:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AmI21-0005mL-00 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 20:40:53 +0100 Received: from makrothumia.wingnet.net ([206.30.215.5]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu Jan 29 19:40:53 2004 Received: from jesse by makrothumia.wingnet.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu Jan 29 19:40:53 2004 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: Jesse Guardiani Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:40:49 -0500 Organization: WingNET Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <1075401074.2660.106.camel@mobius.int.thebadger.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: makrothumia.wingnet.net User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 X-Mail-Copies-To: never Sender: news Subject: Re: API to turn off the display X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jesse@wingnet.net 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 19:41:02 -0000 James Green wrote: [...] > Interestingly, however, is that: > # sysctl hw.acpi.video.lcd0.active=0 && acpiconf -s 1 > > will turn off the LCD and suspend gracefully, whereas > # xset -display :0 dpms force off && sysctl hw.acpi.video.lcd0.active=0 > && acpiconf -s 1 > > just locks everything up... (discovered by adding the commands to > /etc/rc.suspend and getting a lock up) What about from SSH? I've found that things sometimes need a bit of a delay to work properly from /etc/rc.suspend. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net