gnome-power-preferences does not work

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 09:24 -0700, Mike Harding wrote:
> I can confirm that the dialog now works, but the LCD still does not
> turn off, so I have to turn off the screen manually every time I get
> up or do something else...

You're on your own here.  I no longer have a laptop with working power
management.  But every laptop manufacturer is different.  The code for
actually turning off the LCD is in hal in hf-acpi.c and in the tools
subdirectory.

Joe

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