Falk> On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Tony Lill wrote:
>> I've got a Dell Inspiron 5000 laptop. On the text VTs, apm
>> screen blanking turns off the LCD just fine. On the VT that X
>> is running on, this doesn't happen. Unfortunately X can't seem
>> to turn off the LCD, and there is no BIOS settings to make it
>> happen by itself.
>>
>> Is there some way I can get the apm blanking to happen on the X
>> vt?
Falk> try xset [+]dpms and its various options.
Been there, done that.
I was thinking of putting a file in /proc so I can trigger
apm_console_blank to run, and then write an X screensaver to access
it. Probably hopelessly naive and full of holes..
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