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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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Earthling Michel Dänzer      |     Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer
Libre software enthusiast    |   http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer



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