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

[Richard Neill]

nico wrote:
> Dan Sawyer wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> The system is a t41 running FC6 with a custom kernel. The driver is 
>> 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 screen saver to blank the screen and turn the backlight 
>> off. Is there a way to do this?

Try either:
   1)	GUI screensaver controls (xscreensaver/KDE monitor power control etc)
   2)     xset dpms force off
            (It is possible (but very unlikely) that DPMS is disabled in 
xorg.conf)
   3) 	radeontool light off
		(where the driver is relevant).

HTH,

Richard





>>
>> Thanks - Dan
> i don't know the t41 but i saw on x24 than thinklight don't depend of 
> the os but its an hardware
>