[ltp] Thinkpad T40 screen goes dead under Red Hat 9 ..

[Adrian Woizik]

* Mark G. Spencer | 2003-09-22 14:42:17 [-0700]:

>I'm hoping I do not have to kill all power saving features in the BIOS and
>can instead come to some kind of solution within Red Hat 9 to keep these
>machines from going into the terminal blank screen .. 

I have the same behavior with my t40p. The best solution i found was to
disable the lcd-off in the BIOS while running an apm-linux.

You can also use tpctl to turn off the LCD-Timer.

XFree86 is able to switch your lcd off via dpms, which works perfect. 

HTH,
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