On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 16:23, David Walker wrote: > Hi. > > I'm trying to deploy a slave nameserver on a laptop to sit at somebodies > home. > It runs NSD and other than salving and serving queries it polls an NTP > server and that's it. It doesn't run X11 ... > Functionally it all works and I'm looking at keeping this thing quiet > and dark so it's cheap and un-annoying. > > I have apmd_flags="-C" which according to apm is doing its job. > The fan kicks in every now and then for a second or so but it's not too bad. > I've set the options in wsconsctl.conf to blank the screen which also > works but this thing has I think what's called "a backlight" which > means the screen constantly glows. I'm planning to go set this thing > up, let the screen blank and close the lid. > I'd like to remove the backlight and the eerie glow. > I'm unfamiliar with laptops but I've tried zzz and apm -S both kill > the backlight which is great but network functions cease, yes I did > not know that. > I also can't seem to bring it back up form either state short of a > power cycle but that's moot. > > Is there a way to turn off the backlight? > Is there anything else I can do to sedate this machine?
I've never seen a laptop that kept the light on when the lid was closed. Is it really still on?
