look for xset. this helps , as the name suggests, only if you are
running X.
i ve got somrthing like
xset +dpms dpms 0 0 300
in my .xinitrc file. be careful, switching on and off the backlight
can reduce the lifetime.
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 10:59:19AM -0400, Anand Saxena wrote:
> O Wise Ones,
>
> I was wondering if anybody knows how to turn off the LCD screen, which is
> more than blanking it. I would like to be able to add some sort of an
> option that will turn off the backlight completely when the laptop has not
> been used for a certain period of time. Currently, my laptop screen turns
> black, but the backlight remains on.
>
> -Andy Saxena
>
>
> --
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
--
public key: http://leute.server.de/hagan/gpg.txt
fingerprint: 07D9 F89B 7762 1515 F85E 49BE 86FB 9197 01B5 401A
PGP signature
