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

[Alex Deucher]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Gijs Hillenius <gijs@hillenius.net> wrote:
> 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. =A0you can force a dpms state with 'xset dpms force off'.
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> And indeed!
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> /usr/sbin/vbetool dpms off; sleep 2; /usr/sbin/vbetool dpms on
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> works as advertised.
>
> Though I rather have a working X :-)

Don't use vbetool when the driver is loaded.  Use xset for dpms.
vbetool bangs on the display hardware behind the driver's back.
Please follow up on the bug report.

Alex

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