[ltp] DPMS does not work on my ThinkPad T23

Martin Steigerwald linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 14 Mar 2005 08:46:45 +0100


Am Samstag, 12. M=E4rz 2005 14:21 schrieb Marius Gedminas:

> On my T23 the screen goes blank, but the backlight stays on, when I do
> xset dpms force off.

Hallo Marius,

strange. As said the command does nothing here. Do you have any=20
differences in the XF86Config?

> Ubuntu Hoary has a 'vbetool' package that lets me turn the screen off
> with 'vbetool dpms off'.  My /etc/acpi/lid.sh looks like this:

Plain Debian has this package, too. And it works. Thanks a lot.

Regards,
=2D-=20
Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de