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On Feb 19, 2009, at 4:49 AM, Vladimir Rusinov |
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<vladimir@×××××××××.info> wrote: |
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> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Marcin Zwd <marcinzwd@×××××.com> |
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> Well, I've just upgraded my laptop. The old one has ati |
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> radeon r250 graphics card. On this card I can easily turn |
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> off the screen using nice program "radeantool" of course |
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> "xset dpms force off" worked as well. And "turn off" was |
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> permanent. It is worth to mention that I was using |
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> x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati opensource drivers... On the |
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> other hand, the new laptop has nvidia (quadro 135) aboard |
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> and now I'm using x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.82. |
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> Everything works fine except one tiny problem now if I turn |
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> off the screen and backlight after a few seconds the |
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> backlight is back on! |
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> Try following: |
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> sleep 1 && xset dpms force off |
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> Vladimir Rusinov |
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> http://greenmice.info/ |
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Given you're using nvidia, if you just use the nvidia settings app, |
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the graphical one, you can just disable the screen. But, that one's |
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actually perminant, as in removing that screen from xorg.conf |
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