On Thursday 29 January 2004 11:03, Mark Sergeant wrote: > > My video chipset is an ATI Rage 128 Mobility in a Dell Inspiron 8000. > > I use the above, one minor thing though, the backlight on the laptop > stays on (NEC Versa S900 with ATI radeon 9000 mobility) yet under > windows the backlight turns off, still haven't got it worked out :/ It's totally at the whim of your BIOS I believe :( Those ACPI video patches worked here -> [chowder 11:08] ~/projects/acpi_vid-20031013 >sysctl hw.acpi.video hw.acpi.video.crt0.active: 0 hw.acpi.video.lcd0.active: 1 Although if I turn off the LCD by setting it to 0 it wakes up when I press a key, but the sysctl remains set to 0. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5Received on Wed Jan 28 2004 - 15:40:41 UTC
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