Re: thinkpad suspend to ram and backlight

From: Timo Hoenig
Date: Tue Oct 04 2005 - 07:01:29 EST


Hi,

On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 12:00 +0200, Stefan Seyfried wrote:

> Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > When I suspend to RAM on x32, backlight is not turned off. (And, IIRC,
> > video chips is not turned off, too). Unfortunately, backlight is not
> > turned even when lid is closed. I know some patches were floating
> > around to solve that... but I can't find them now. Any ideas?
>
> Which framebuffer driver? Vesafb works for Timo, at least he did not
> complain lately ;-)

It's never too late to complain: I just gave it a try with vesfb.
Backlight stays on.

When eying the display precisely it seems to be switched off for a short
moment once the system enters S3 but then gets turned on again.

Timo

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