Re: Should green_saver.ko shut off a laptop's backlight?

2010-11-29 Thread John Baldwin
On Saturday, November 27, 2010 11:30:56 pm Adam Vande More wrote: On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote: My recollection is that green_saver should turn off an LCD backlight, but I just loaded it up on my laptop and it's not doing so. It does remove the text

Re: Should green_saver.ko shut off a laptop's backlight?

2010-11-29 Thread Doug Barton
On 11/29/2010 07:09, John Baldwin wrote: On Saturday, November 27, 2010 11:30:56 pm Adam Vande More wrote: On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Doug Bartondo...@freebsd.org wrote: My recollection is that green_saver should turn off an LCD backlight, but I just loaded it up on my laptop and it's

Re: Should green_saver.ko shut off a laptop's backlight?

2010-11-29 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday, November 29, 2010 4:10:02 pm Doug Barton wrote: On 11/29/2010 07:09, John Baldwin wrote: On Saturday, November 27, 2010 11:30:56 pm Adam Vande More wrote: On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Doug Bartondo...@freebsd.org wrote: My recollection is that green_saver should turn off

Re: Should green_saver.ko shut off a laptop's backlight?

2010-11-29 Thread Doug Barton
On 11/29/2010 13:14, John Baldwin wrote: On Monday, November 29, 2010 4:10:02 pm Doug Barton wrote: On 11/29/2010 07:09, John Baldwin wrote: On Saturday, November 27, 2010 11:30:56 pm Adam Vande More wrote: On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Doug Bartondo...@freebsd.org wrote: My

Should green_saver.ko shut off a laptop's backlight?

2010-11-27 Thread Doug Barton
My recollection is that green_saver should turn off an LCD backlight, but I just loaded it up on my laptop and it's not doing so. It does remove the text from the screen, but the backlight is still on (i.e., it is doing exactly what blank_saver does). When running X DPMS works on that same

Re: Should green_saver.ko shut off a laptop's backlight?

2010-11-27 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote: My recollection is that green_saver should turn off an LCD backlight, but I just loaded it up on my laptop and it's not doing so. It does remove the text from the screen, but the backlight is still on (i.e., it is doing