[ltp] Back light doesn't turn off

[Michael B Allen]

On Tue, 24 May 2005 14:00:32 -0400
James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> wrote:

> I have a ThinkPad R31, running SuSE 9.3.  One thing I've noticed, it
> that when the screen blanks, after a period of inactivity, the back
> light stays on, unlike in Window, where it turns off.  Is there any way
> to get the back light to turn off, when it's not needed?

If there is some kind of event that you can trap you could use radeontool
to turn off the backlight. But I would exhaust exploring all dpms X
server options first.

Mike