From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu May 13 17:42:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from int-gw.staff.apnic.net (guardian.apnic.net [203.37.255.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FDC414EAE for ; Thu, 13 May 1999 17:42:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc-freebsd@vicious.dropbear.id.au) Received: (from mail@localhost) by int-gw.staff.apnic.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id AAA29122 for ; Fri, 14 May 1999 00:42:33 GMT Received: from julubu.staff.apnic.net(192.168.1.37) by rex.apnic.net via smap (V2.1) id xma029118; Fri, 14 May 99 10:42:16 +1000 Received: (from bc@localhost) by julubu.staff.apnic.net (8.8.7/SCO5) id KAA28825; Fri, 14 May 1999 10:42:13 +1000 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: julubu.staff.apnic.net: bc set sender to bc-freebsd@vicious.dropbear.id.au using -f Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 10:42:13 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Campbell Reply-To: Bruce Campbell To: FreeBSD Laptoppers Subject: Controlling Laptop screens Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As many people are aware of, when an organisation has had a piece of equipment for some time, the manufacturer's documentation for the device tends to vanish over time (ie, my work laptop). I'm quite sure that there is some key combination on the laptop itself which lets me switch the screen off, or toggle the external battery discharge^W^WVGA output on or off, however what would be an 'interesting' feature would be to be able to do this via FreeBSD itself. Is there such a program (not that I've found one as yet) ? Is it worthwhile to have such a program ? Is there a standard BIOS interface to do this ? Will my bottle of Jolt run out before I expect to finish it ? --==-- Bruce. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message