Re: API to turn off the display

From: Jesse Guardiani <jesse_at_wingnet.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 14:40:49 -0500
James Green wrote:

[...]

> Interestingly, however, is that:
> # sysctl hw.acpi.video.lcd0.active=0 &&  acpiconf -s 1
> 
> will turn off the LCD and suspend gracefully, whereas
> # xset -display :0 dpms force off && sysctl hw.acpi.video.lcd0.active=0
> && acpiconf -s 1
> 
> just locks everything up... (discovered by adding the commands to
> /etc/rc.suspend and getting a lock up)

What about from SSH? I've found that things sometimes need a bit of a delay
to work properly from /etc/rc.suspend.

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Received on Thu Jan 29 2004 - 10:41:02 UTC

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