Bug#164217: xserver-xfree86: [radeon] screen blanking never turns off the LCD backlight
In article <[🔎] 1034421886.1149.136.camel@tibook>,
Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org> wrote:
> It's actually a limitation of the radeon driver in 4.2, it doesn't do
> any power managmenet for digital flat panels. I think it's been fixed in
> current CVS, but I'm not sure if backporting this particular feature is
> feasible.
Actually, it is quite easy. Adding this file to debian/patches will
take care of it. This straightforward is the same one in the CVS HEAD.
Another simple patch that was applied to HEAD at the same time blanks
the second monitor, but since I only have one, I cannot test that.
--
Shields.
--- xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ati/radeon_driver.c.orig 2002-10-12 18:41:02.000000000 +0000
+++ xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ati/radeon_driver.c 2002-10-12 18:41:24.000000000 +0000
@@ -2883,8 +2883,7 @@
/* DPMS setup */
#ifdef DPMSExtension
- if (info->DisplayType == MT_CRT)
- xf86DPMSInit(pScreen, RADEONDisplayPowerManagementSet, 0);
+ xf86DPMSInit(pScreen, RADEONDisplayPowerManagementSet, 0);
#endif
RADEONInitVideo(pScreen);
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