From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 29 04:07:48 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2344616A4CE for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 04:07:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from crumpet.united-ware.com (ddsl-66-42-172-210.fuse.net [66.42.172.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81E1843D39 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 04:07:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mistry.7@osu.edu) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (adsl-68-252-59-28.dsl.wotnoh.ameritech.net [68.252.59.28]) (authenticated bits=0)j2T3bQlu092803 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:37:27 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mistry.7@osu.edu) From: Anish Mistry To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, Ron Freidel Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:07:39 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <20050328191545.20bc033d.rfreidel@onewest.net> In-Reply-To: <20050328191545.20bc033d.rfreidel@onewest.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart4109984.gLAQsUYDeu"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200503282307.46660.mistry.7@osu.edu> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.64 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on crumpet.united-ware.com Subject: Re: Dell inspirion 8600 backlight X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 04:07:48 -0000 --nextPart4109984.gLAQsUYDeu Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 28 March 2005 09:15 pm, Ron Freidel wrote: > I am wondering if anyone knows how to turn off the display on a > Dell inspirion 8600 when it goes into suspend mode, or if not that > then just turning off the backlight as in dpms. > > The only thing I have found is if I do a > > sysctl hw.acpi.video.crt0.active=3D1 > > and then > > sysctl hw.acpi.video.lcd0.active=3D0 > > that turns off the display completely, but it is difficult to get > it to turn back on, plus the video card is still active so there is > no power saving. > > Am currently running 6.0-CURRENT, built today, but I find the same > thing on 5.3, and 5.4 pre. > > Thanks in advance. > Have you tried the VESA DPMS patch for acpi_video that was floating=20 around on the list a while ago? It shuts off the video adapter when=20 going into suspend. =2D-=20 Anish Mistry --nextPart4109984.gLAQsUYDeu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCSNSSxqA5ziudZT0RAnhCAJ0SPUwZXYcdqEsZ1EInmPzSpGMIBQCbBI1D YdrCgkZsTD3Evpr6EdPTyeI= =XObk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4109984.gLAQsUYDeu--