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Date:      Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:01:58 +0300
From:      "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Laptop display stays on with lid closed
Message-ID:  <cb5206420612201201g5c80ec15r6f05b5f51e6c3f50@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <cb5206420612200127h61ad2559x499203c97d95526e@mail.gmail.com>
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On 12/20/06, Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@freebsd.org> wrote:
> I only noticed this now, thought it is a hardware
> glitch. My laptop display - and its backlight -
> stay on when I close the lid. Shouldn't it be
> turned off like in an OS-independent way?..

To answer my own question, I ended up using a cool
app named radeontool (sysutils/). Clearly, I'm
lucky to have a Radeon in my laptop. Now I just
have to figure out how to call a script on lid
open/close event.



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