From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S9IcU-0000kA-7V for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 16:06:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 909DDE07B2; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 16:06:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f175.google.com (mail-wi0-f175.google.com [209.85.212.175]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BB3EE07B2 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 16:04:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhn6 with SMTP id hn6so2514009wib.10 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:04:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=99huhJhGfI4qeg63mGQx+tk3EHNbJefD8XsuWghwGow=; b=pppvQvsx6yhzfVSA9VwPdfleuOEwvjuO1MCv/vSZYm+9eH0uXMoiX+S7Z5YKIXbwyg hc013oDPXUkbtuIIjnKUHaD71w8qhvzR/88OgYhDDUaoyP0LuIIIa/4UOw+AGLhaXwXQ Wo2ksg8hprCXs39TnvQ3kL/MmLsLFSckPqm1BPHegWAX1a+Ip8gMtdhXxbQyiG++cvMl tdhKns3gKcRWhbxKDUpB7p3boG7m9NuzwdoUPW5n+zLaB2LwCbKJtf2naHvDVqIRpnDj dDASo1U4ZN1lRB7Lv7E2E7QjmOyAKO1ajyCs/dKT9saXpR1WMEcS4hr/EHOxnoFPmao1 Delw== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.102.129 with SMTP id fo1mr13183984wib.6.1332086687639; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:04:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.8.68 with HTTP; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:04:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:04:47 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Power management or something? From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 29c200d4-148a-47f4-a9fd-0cd3a9f6edd9 X-Archives-Hash: 76fb314d6c77ea71654cf9f561cf2684 On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Grant wrote: >> I have a fresh install of Gentoo on my laptop and I'm having some >> trouble with the backlight that I think is related to the screen going >> into some sort of power save mode or something along those lines. =C2=A0= Are >> there power management settings somewhere or something similar? =C2=A0I'= m >> on xfce4. >> >> - Grant > > I found another clue. =C2=A0It happens whenever I shut my laptop screen, > even for a moment. =C2=A0Is this some kind of sleep mode? =C2=A0Might I b= e able > to disable it in the kernel somewhere? > > - Grant > I had that same issue with closing the screen. I think my solution was a KDE setting which won't help you unless there is something similar with XFCE. I'll boot the laptop and see if I Can spot what I did. Ah the things we have time for when watching Hulu on a Sunday morning... ;-) Back later, Mark