Re: Poor Backlight Control
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 09:49 -1000, Peter Besenbruch wrote:
> Michel Dänzer wrote:
> >
> > It's been reported that at least some of these issues are due to the X
> > server treating ACPI battery events as activity, does Option "NoPM" work
> > around this?
>
> I put 'Option "NoPM"' in both the device and monitor sections of
> xorg.conf, [...]
I forgot to mention it should go into the "ServerFlags" section, see the
xorg.conf(5x) manpage. Please verify in the X server log file that the
option is honoured and/or that the X server doesn't open the ACPI daemon
socket.
> If a battery event has something to do with it, I suspect turning off
> the monitor simply allows battery checking to go on in the background.
Not sure what you mean here.
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