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Date:      Fri, 05 Nov 2004 21:56:18 +0000
From:      Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk>
To:        Alan Gerber <agerber@ncsu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dell D600 - sleep / acpi in FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE
Message-ID:  <418BF702.5070004@wadham.ox.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <418B799E.40506@ncsu.edu>
References:  <418AF579.6040509@centtech.com> <418B799E.40506@ncsu.edu>

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Alan Gerber wrote:
> ... on my D600.  S1 doesn't turn the 
> LCD off, however, so it still drains significant battery power.  It 
> isn't a super-important thing to me, so I've been a little relaxed about 
> saying anything about it.

If you upgrade to 5.3 and load acpi_video.ko, then you can turn off the
LCD via rc.suspend (and bring it back in rc.resume, of course).

Colin Percival



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