On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 01:19:02PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday 28 January 2004 01:11 pm, Scott Lambert wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 08:32:15AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > > In message: <20040128045816.Y1089_at_alpha.siliconlandmark.com> > > > : Through functionality provided by the BIOS. A 30-second > > > : search through the source would have shown the answer in > > > : /usr/src/sys/i386/bios/apm.c:334 with apm_display(). > > > > > > My experience is that turning the display off via apm doesn't work > > > on many laptops :-(. > > > > Is there anything that does; other than closing the lid? > > Yes, there should be. ACPI has an entire set of methods devoted to > manging displays including turning the displays on and off. We just > don't support those yet. Ok. As long as there is that possibility. I'm not in a hurry. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing out on current capabilities. ACPI is still black magic to me. Someday I'll sit down and try to understand it. -- Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix SysAdmin lambert_at_lambertfam.orgReceived on Wed Jan 28 2004 - 12:40:04 UTC
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