Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:07:39 -0500 From: Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, Ron Freidel <rfreidel@onewest.net> Subject: Re: Dell inspirion 8600 backlight Message-ID: <200503282307.46660.mistry.7@osu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050328191545.20bc033d.rfreidel@onewest.net> References: <20050328191545.20bc033d.rfreidel@onewest.net>
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--nextPart4109984.gLAQsUYDeu Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 28 March 2005 09:15 pm, Ron Freidel wrote: > I am wondering if anyone knows how to turn off the display on a > Dell inspirion 8600 when it goes into suspend mode, or if not that > then just turning off the backlight as in dpms. > > The only thing I have found is if I do a > > sysctl hw.acpi.video.crt0.active=3D1 > > and then > > sysctl hw.acpi.video.lcd0.active=3D0 > > that turns off the display completely, but it is difficult to get > it to turn back on, plus the video card is still active so there is > no power saving. > > Am currently running 6.0-CURRENT, built today, but I find the same > thing on 5.3, and 5.4 pre. > > Thanks in advance. > Have you tried the VESA DPMS patch for acpi_video that was floating=20 around on the list a while ago? It shuts off the video adapter when=20 going into suspend. =2D-=20 Anish Mistry --nextPart4109984.gLAQsUYDeu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCSNSSxqA5ziudZT0RAnhCAJ0SPUwZXYcdqEsZ1EInmPzSpGMIBQCbBI1D YdrCgkZsTD3Evpr6EdPTyeI= =XObk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4109984.gLAQsUYDeu--
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