Laptop display stays on with lid closed

Andrew Pantyukhin infofarmer at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jan 13 19:45:10 UTC 2007


Hey!

I just wanted to thank you all for suggestions!

I ended up using Xorg's built-in features (option
"off time" "3" in section "serverflags"), so my
screen turns off after 3 minutes of inactivity.
Since closed lid implies inactivity in most cases,
I don't bother about it.

Interestingly, on my desktop (Radeon 9550 + NEC
LCD 1760NX) Xorg can only make screen go blank,
the backlight stays on. vbetool handles the issue
on Linux, but I couldn't port it yet.

Thanks!


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