Hi all, on my previous laptop, I used `sudo vbetool dpms off` to switch off the monitor. which worked fine. On my Thinkpad, this doesn't work reliably anymore: after I have switched off the monitor, I cannot switch it on again. On the other hand, I cannot switch it off after it was in sleep mode. Since a kernel upgrade, the whole procedure doesn't work at all:
% sudo vbetool dpms off zsh: illegal hardware instruction sudo vbetool dpms off Setting the tty to blank doesn't work either: % sudo setterm --blank force /dev/tty1 setterm: cannot force blank: Inappropriate ioctl for device Can anybody confirm any of the above observations? It might be necessary to investigate this, since it makes the tips on the wiki page useless, at least for me. Cheers Sebastian -- Web: http://www.crustulus.de (English|Deutsch) | Blog: http://www.crustulus.de/blog FreeDict: Free multilingual dictionaries - http://www.freedict.org Freies Latein-Deutsch-Wörterbuch: http://www.crustulus.de/freedict.de.html
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