[ltp] how to turn of backlight - linux - t41 ?

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:35:03 -0200


On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Dan Sawyer wrote:
> radeonfb. The ibm_acpi is also loaded. The screen saver is set to blank 
> screen, however the backlight is left on. I would like to configure the 

Try telling X and the screen saver to use DPMS to switch the screen off.  It
works just fine on an ATI X300 (in a T43) with the free X.org drivers.

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