Re: VESA DPMS Driver

From: Anish Mistry <mistry.7_at_osu.edu>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 15:55:12 -0400
On Thursday 29 April 2004 01:20 am, Benjamin Close wrote:
> Hi All,
>     I like many have suffered the battery drain of the laptop screen
> remaining on while the system is suspended. I've created a driver that
> allows the screen to be shutdown by DPMS provided acpi supports video
> mode changes. Beware, this is my first kernel driver so it's nothing
> great. Hopefully it will help someone with enough knowledge build a
> better driver.
>
> It's a loadable kernel module and the only tweak required to get it
> compiling should be in the Makefile.
>
> You can grab it from:
> http://www.clearchain.com/people/benjsc/download/vesa_dpms.tar.gz
> A URL as the list strips attachments.
>
> Cheers,
>     Benjamin
Thanks Benjamin!  This is exactly what I've been hoping for.  It seems to fix 
my final ACPI problem. :)  Could we get a committer to take a look.  This 
seems like something that would be nice to get into 5.3.

-- 
Anish Mistry

Received on Fri Apr 30 2004 - 02:21:55 UTC

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