From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 23 10:28:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org 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 3239516A41C for ; Mon, 23 May 2005 10:28:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tataz@tataz.chchile.org) Received: from postfix4-1.free.fr (postfix4-1.free.fr [213.228.0.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA60543D49 for ; Mon, 23 May 2005 10:28:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tataz@tataz.chchile.org) Received: from tatooine.tataz.chchile.org (vol75-8-82-233-239-98.fbx.proxad.net [82.233.239.98]) by postfix4-1.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE616317D95; Mon, 23 May 2005 12:28:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: by tatooine.tataz.chchile.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D2423407E; Mon, 23 May 2005 12:28:43 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 12:28:43 +0200 From: Jeremie Le Hen To: Kevin Oberman Message-ID: <20050523102843.GW850@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> References: <4290DCA7.3060807@pldrouin.net> <20050523004122.1A61D5D07@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050523004122.1A61D5D07@ptavv.es.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: Pierre-Luc Drouin , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to turn off the backlight? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 10:28:43 -0000 Hi, > I think the problem is that the vga in FreeBSD does not support > DPMS. This is problem on a lot of laptops, including my IBM T30. > > jhb posted a patch to acpi_video to support DPMS and started working a > general vga support, but I don't think he's aver finished it and I am > still using his patch. > > You can find it in the archives. Look for 'acpi_video_dpms.c'. It's been > a LONG time, but it still works. I may have made some minor adjustments > over the months that will be required to make the patch install, but > it's still working for me with -current. > > If you have too much trouble getting it to apply, I can send you a copy > of the patch I am currently running. For the records: http://www.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/acpi_video_dpms.patch -- Jeremie Le Hen < jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >