On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 14:15:27 PDT, Tony Godshall writes: >Sure does. Closed it to a tiny crack and its still on. >Doesn't seem to be any such switch on the OB. (On many >machines closing the lid autmatically suspends it, fwiw, my OB6k has a bios option for this kind of stuff. >the backlight. Yet! But after I left the OB on a console >for a while to write the other message about the showkey >results I discovered that it does turn the backlight off >when the console blanking code kicks in (is this a kernel >feature)? Cool. Thanks Linus! Thanks Heather! man setterm, and see your kernel configs: CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK governs this behaviour. >> If it has dpms features you might be able to convince X to put it in >> that mode - however, running X may itself steal juice, can't say if that >> would be a win. at least the xfree86 server (3.3.6++) for the mach rage something in my OB6k states "dpms: experimental" and does nothing whatsoever to switch off the backlight. regards az -- + Alexander Zangerl + az@snafu.priv.at + www.snafu.priv.at + DSA 0x42BD645D + (RSA 0x5B586291) Unix *is* user-friendly. It is not ignorant-friendly and idiot-friendly.
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