> Falk> On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Tony Lill wrote:
> >> I've got a Dell Inspiron 5000 laptop. On the text VTs, apm
> >> screen blanking turns off the LCD just fine. On the VT that X
> >> is running on, this doesn't happen. Unfortunately X can't seem
> >> to turn off the LCD, and there is no BIOS settings to make it
> >> happen by itself.
> >>
> >> Is there some way I can get the apm blanking to happen on the X
> >> vt?
>
>
> Falk> try xset [+]dpms and its various options.
>
> Been there, done that.
>
> I was thinking of putting a file in /proc so I can trigger
> apm_console_blank to run, and then write an X screensaver to access
> it. Probably hopelessly naive and full of holes..
Are you using a framebuffer device? If you are their is a ioctl ia /dev/fb
that can blank the screen.
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