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On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 02:14 -0500, Joshua Murphy wrote: |
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> if radeontool or something will allow you to disable the display even |
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> when you aren't in X, or without proper access to the display (like |
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> xset requires) you might be able to even escape needing that xhost |
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> setting. No way of testing it at all myself though. |
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I use the dpms feature of sys-apps/vbetool to control the state of the |
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display from a shell script called by acpid. It works even when X is not |
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running and does not need access to the X display if X is running. Also, |
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it works with graphics cards from multiple vendors, as it uses VESA |
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extensions. From personal experience, I know it works with the Intel |
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graphics chipset in my laptop (x86) and also with the Nvidia graphics |
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card in my desktop (amd64). The latter does not have a lid to close, of |
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course, but vbetool can still turn off the display. |
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--Brandon Vargo |
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