Date: 22 Dec 2002 10:15:50 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: "J. Seth Henry" <jshenry@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: blank saver question Message-ID: <44fzsq9ja1.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20021220135235.K57534-100000@whitetower.gambrl01.md.comcast.net> References: <20021220135235.K57534-100000@whitetower.gambrl01.md.comcast.net>
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"J. Seth Henry" <jshenry@comcast.net> writes: > Hello, > I am working on adapting FreeBSD to a Compaq IA-1. The display on this > system is not DPMS compliant, so shutting off the backlight requires > writing to a PCI register. > > I currently have a small C program which I can use to manipulate this > register from the command line, and I would like to either integrate, or > call, this code from the blanksaver module. Unfortunately, I don't know > enough about how it works to change it. > > Could someone give me some tips on how to do this? Is it as simple as > simply adding the code to the blank_saver() function, and adding the > appropriate header and include files? I'm a bit nervous mucking in > modules, as I understand they can cause "problems" that are hard to > recover from. Offhand, that looks like a good approach. Try it and see; if you have problems, just change things back. > If it is, this would be a good place to initialize all of the front panel > LED's as well :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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