From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 8 19:49:41 2004 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 94E3816A4CE for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 19:49:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ox.eicat.ca (ox.eicat.ca [66.96.30.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B0C843D54 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 19:49:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dgilbert@daveg.ca) Received: by ox.eicat.ca (Postfix, from userid 66) id C680BC87B; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 14:49:40 -0500 (EST) Received: by canoe.dclg.ca (Postfix, from userid 101) id 707BD6A95; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 14:49:37 -0500 (EST) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16783.52689.411232.129422@canoe.dclg.ca> Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 14:49:37 -0500 To: Alan Gerber In-Reply-To: <418FC592.9040701@ncsu.edu> References: <418AF579.6040509@centtech.com> <418B799E.40506@ncsu.edu> <16783.36610.477760.252310@canoe.dclg.ca> <418FC592.9040701@ncsu.edu> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta17) "chayote" (+CVS-20040321) XEmacs Lucid cc: dell-d800@eicat.ca cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org cc: Eric Anderson cc: David Gilbert Subject: Re: Dell D600 - sleep / acpi in FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE 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: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 19:49:41 -0000 >>>>> "Alan" == Alan Gerber writes: Alan> David Gilbert wrote: >> On my D800 (which is a completely different nvidia beast), it >> works to 'xset dpms force off' the screen immediately before >> suspending. ACPI suspending to S1 still leaves the processor >> needing the cooling fan for me --- so it's not ideal. S3 suspend >> reboots the machine. Alan> I didn't know about that command. I just tried it and it works Alan> nicely for turning off the display from within X. However, when Alan> you enter S1 (via something like 'xset dpms force off && Alan> acpiconf -s 1'), the screen turns back on and changes to the Alan> system console. I'd think about putting this in an Alan> rc.suspend-like script, but given that it is an xset command, I Alan> doubt that would work. Or is there another way to do this that Alan> I am missing? Well... you can see if the green_saver.ko will do dpms for you. Dunno. For me, turning off the backlight makes more difference in suspend run time than S1 does. I'm not sure S1 helps at all, really. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dave@daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================