Thinkpad not going off while suspend

[Dennis Koegel]

Hi,

On Sat, Oct 09, 2004 at 06:30:47PM -0700, Bruce M Simpson 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.
> You don't specify which OS version you're running. Have you tried
> acpi_video?

Actually, I have the same problem. I was googling for it this
afternoon and found references to acpi_video, but settting the
video.lcd0.active sysctl to =0 would output "...lcd0.active: 1 -> 1"
and consequently do nothing. LCD remains powered.

Found users reporting this problem, but no solution to it.

I'm running 5.3-BETA7 (cvsup'd yesteday).

HTH, Thanks,
- D.