Laptop display stays on with lid closed

[Andrew Pantyukhin]

On 12/20/06, Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer at freebsd.org> wrote:
> I only noticed this now, thought it is a hardware
> glitch. My laptop display - and its backlight -
> stay on when I close the lid. Shouldn't it be
> turned off like in an OS-independent way?..

To answer my own question, I ended up using a cool
app named radeontool (sysutils/). Clearly, I'm
lucky to have a Radeon in my laptop. Now I just
have to figure out how to call a script on lid
open/close event.