[ltp] Z61m, ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility X1400, Debian Sid

[Gijs Hillenius]

On 10 Feb 2011, Alex Deucher wrote:


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> The lid usually generates an acpi lid event which is usually handled
> by the lid preferences in your desktop environment; usually suspend or
> dpms off.  you can force a dpms state with 'xset dpms force off'.

And indeed!

/usr/sbin/vbetool dpms off; sleep 2; /usr/sbin/vbetool dpms on

works as advertised.

Though I rather have a working X :-)

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