API to turn off the display

[Scott Lambert]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 08:32:15AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <20040128045816.Y1089 at alpha.siliconlandmark.com>
>             Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy at siliconlandmark.com> writes:
> : Through functionality provided by the BIOS. A 30-second
> : search through the source would have shown the answer in
> : /usr/src/sys/i386/bios/apm.c:334 with apm_display().
>
> My experience is that turning the display off via apm doesn't work on
> many laptops :-(.

Is there anything that does; other than closing the lid?

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Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
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