Re: turning off (LCD+) backlight without suspending

[Tony Godshall <togo@of.net>]

> Oh, that's a shame.  On my laptop there's an actual separate key
> called "Fn", sitting in between "Ctrl" and "Alt".  

Yeah, mine has one too, but it's to the left of ctrl.

> It's intended
> purely for switching on these Toshiba-specific keyboard functions (it's
> also used to switch on the numberpad overlay over the uio-jkl-etc keys).
> Alt-F1, Alt-F2 switches between consoles (the "F1", F2"... keys
> themselves are labelled as such).


I think that was the intent here too but apparently they didn't
implement at BIOS level.  So I have to find a linux-level
solution.

--
Tony