On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 03:23:09PM EDT, Chris Jones wrote:
> Hopefully, this is the correct place to ask such questions - I tried the
> fbdev-users mailing list a couple of days ago, but is looks like it's
> not currently very active.
>
> I would like my laptop's LCD panel to switch itself off automatically
> after a few minutes of inactivity.
>
> The /etc/kbd/config file specifies:
>
> BLANK_DPMS=on
> POWERDOWN_TIME=2
>
> The /etc/init.d/console-screen.kbd.sh script appears to issue a setterm
> command with the above options a boot time, yet nothing happens.
>
> I issued the corresponding "setterm" command manually also to no effect.
>
> Is there something that I need to configure in the linux kernel?
>
> Is this a limitation of the frambuffer console with the atyfb driver?
>
> Manually executing "vbetool dpms off" does the trick, so it doesn't look
> like this is a hardware limitation per se.
>
> The video card is an ATI Technologies Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64).
>
> Relevant (?) software:
>
> linux-image : 2.6.26-1-686
> acpid : 1.0.8-1
> util-linux : 2.13.1.1-1
> kbd : 1.14.1-4
Hmm.. it looks like this is not the right place to request assistance
regarding this issue. :-(
Anyone could suggest where I might find help with this?
Thanks,
CJ
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