Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:51:57 -0700 From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> To: Jochen Gensch <incmc@gmx.de> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Turning off screen completely Message-ID: <20041021165157.GL13756@empiric.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <41779562.8020303@gmx.de> References: <4176DECC.70606@gmx.de> <20041021011752.GE10871@empiric.icir.org> <41779562.8020303@gmx.de>
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On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 12:54:26PM +0200, Jochen Gensch wrote: > Doesn't work here. I can run a xset dpms force standby, suspend... the > back light always stays on. I'm curious, what is the technical > background to this? Who / what controls this behaviour? BTW: what is > that radeon.ko module needed for? I thought X.org uses its own driver? 'xset dpms force standby' causes my T40 to turn off the backlight. It did not do this when I had XFree86 4.2.0 installed previously. empiric:~ % uname -a FreeBSD empiric.icir.org 5.3-BETA7 FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 #3: Tue Oct 5 20:46:12 PDT 2004 bms@empiric.icir.org:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/EMPIRIC i386 empiric:~ % xdpyinfo | grep ^X X.Org version: 6.7.0 I have radeon.ko loaded also because I want hardware 3D rendering, which requires DRM kernel support. BMS
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