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On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:49 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> wrote: |
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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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Thanks, I tried that before as well. Besides the screen is turning off, however |
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just for a few seconds. My guess is that probably gnome or some other |
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apps is turning the screen back on. |
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So, it seems that only I have this kind of problem :( |
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Marcin |
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