Re: Turning off backlight of TFT display
Stefan Bellon wrote:
> In article <[🔎] 398EC84A.92498F1E@freesurf.ch>,
> m.nine.six <m.nine.six@freesurf.ch> wrote:
>
> > if it's a thinkpad (ibm) there is a tool called tpctl and is more or
> > less equivalent to the ibm's orinigal dos tool ps2.exe and with this
> > tool you can change the bios settings while running the machine.
>
> Sorry, it's not an IBM. I'll test the suggestin with xset though.
>
> > but i guess turning of the backlight is an bios option that you can't
> > change with software.
>
> And no, it's not "just an BIOS option" as SuSE manages to turn off the
> backlight with the same configuration. So I think Debian should be able
> to as well.
FWIW, this does work in Debian on a Vaio, xset can turn the backlight off, the
xscreensaver feature works too.
-Adam P.
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