API to turn off the display

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Thursday 29 January 2004 11:03, Mark Sergeant wrote:
> > My video chipset is an ATI Rage 128 Mobility in a Dell Inspiron 8000.
>
> I use the above, one minor thing though, the backlight on the laptop
> stays on (NEC Versa S900 with ATI radeon 9000 mobility) yet under
> windows the backlight turns off, still haven't got it  worked out :/

It's totally at the whim of your BIOS I believe :(

Those ACPI video patches worked here ->
[chowder 11:08] ~/projects/acpi_vid-20031013 >sysctl hw.acpi.video
hw.acpi.video.crt0.active: 0
hw.acpi.video.lcd0.active: 1

Although if I turn off the LCD by setting it to 0 it wakes up when I press a 
key, but the sysctl remains set to 0.

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