Turning off screen completely

[Bruce M Simpson]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 12:54:26PM +0200, Jochen Gensch wrote:
> Doesn't work here. I can run a xset dpms force standby, suspend... the 
> back light always stays on. I'm curious, what is the technical 
> background to this? Who / what controls this behaviour? BTW: what is 
> that radeon.ko module needed for? I thought X.org uses its own driver?

'xset dpms force standby' causes my T40 to turn off the backlight.
It did not do this when I had XFree86 4.2.0 installed previously.

empiric:~ % uname -a
FreeBSD empiric.icir.org 5.3-BETA7 FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 #3: Tue Oct  5 20:46:12 PDT 2004     bms at empiric.icir.org:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/EMPIRIC  i386

empiric:~ % xdpyinfo | grep ^X
X.Org version: 6.7.0

I have radeon.ko loaded also because I want hardware 3D rendering, which
requires DRM kernel support.

BMS