Re: dpms on Dell Inspiron 4000
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 05:57:34PM -0600, Jeff Lessem wrote:
> In your message of: 05 May 2001 18:08:15 EDT, you write:
> >I'm having trouble getting dpms working on a Dell Inspiron 4000 with
> >an ATI Rage 128 Mobility LF using Adrian Bunk's xserver-xfree86
>
> The r128 driver supports true DPMS. If you have an external display
> connected to your laptop it will turn it off as requested, but the
> driver does not support turning off the laptop's lcd display. The
> only option at this time is to switch to a non-X console and let the
> kernel's apm driver turn off the lcd.
Uh-oh. Does the LCD not support switching off or only the driver? I am using
a Vaio slimtop with ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 PR and LCD display. I
power if off every night, because the display does not go in powersave, even
with apm -s its still on. But apm does some other weird things, I suspect it
to do something bad to the mousedriver (jumpy mouse, "pressing" buttons at
random) and the keyboard, most of the time I can not enter my passwd in
xlock, it seems it does not recognized any keys but RETURN.
Christian
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