Thinkpad not going off while suspend

[Bruce M Simpson]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 02:14:44AM +0200, Arne Schwabe wrote:
> I just stumbled about something interesting, my Thinkpad t40 does not
> turn the display off (backlight is turned off) if going into suspend (acpi S3). If you point
> rather bright lamp at the lcd you can still read it.
> 
> Is just my notebook behaving this strange?

You don't specify which OS version you're running. Have you tried acpi_video?

BMS