Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:11:39 +0100 From: "Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]" <Danovitsch@vitsch.net> To: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop display stays on with lid closed Message-ID: <200612211011.40063.Danovitsch@vitsch.net> In-Reply-To: <cb5206420612201201g5c80ec15r6f05b5f51e6c3f50@mail.gmail.com> References: <cb5206420612200127h61ad2559x499203c97d95526e@mail.gmail.com> <cb5206420612201201g5c80ec15r6f05b5f51e6c3f50@mail.gmail.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hi Andrew, On Wednesday 20 December 2006 21:01, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > 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. Have a look at /etc/devd.conf . You should be able to add an event to it with system="ACPI" and subsystem="Lid". -- Daan
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200612211011.40063.Danovitsch>