On 11/29/2010 07:09, John Baldwin wrote: > On Saturday, November 27, 2010 11:30:56 pm Adam Vande More wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Doug Barton<dougb_at_freebsd.org> wrote: >> >>> My recollection is that green_saver should turn off an LCD backlight, but I >>> just loaded it up on my laptop and it's not doing so. It does remove the >>> text from the screen, but the backlight is still on (i.e., it is doing >>> exactly what blank_saver does). >>> >>> When running X DPMS works on that same laptop, so I know the hardware is >>> capable. This is 9-current amd64 at r214025. Any suggestions are welcome. >>> >> >> It's never worked for me either and this has been around awhile. >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=114928&cat= > > green_saver just ask's your video card's BIOS to shut the screen off. If the > BIOS doesn't turn off the backlight, that is the BIOS's problem, not > something we can fix. Ok, so does the attached seem reasonable? -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/
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