psimo? Re: pmud on iBook questions

["Christoph Ewering" <eweri@cunde.de>]

Hello !

I do not know that this snooze-thing works with the new iBooks.
AFAIK the pismo has the same pmu, how about that?

Bye,
    Christoph

Michael Schmitz schrieb:

> > > Nope, it's not. fbset 0 does nothing useful. fblevel 0 would be equivalent
> > > to fblevel off though.
> >
> > Should it? I just tried fblevel off; fblevel 10 and it remained black. Blindly
> > typing fblevel 10 again didn't help. Only when I issued fblevel on did it come
> > back.
>
> You're right - that's something that's always been striking me as odd.
> fblevel 0 shuts down the backlight sure enough, fblevel <some number >=1>
> switches it back on, but fblevel off does more than fblevel 0. It uses a
> fbcon ioctl instead of the pmu one, and just blanks the display. The
> framebuffer driver does the Right Thing and switches off backlighting in
> that case. It might also power down parts of the graphics engine ...
>
>         Michael
>
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