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 1S9IpN-0002pe-Fw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 16:19:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7623FE0AEB; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 16:19:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f181.google.com (mail-we0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6840E096C for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 16:17:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by werm13 with SMTP id m13so6220623wer.40 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:17:28 -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=2Zol1zutDT90WiPZhEsqHmVLsDcPJwT1aw1dJlh2z9E=; b=Ow8sDQs5mlL/fYsx7xFZTW7gQE/Te8oz5FL0YUKcOVr0cupiCiPgAQiHgAXfU4IoWP dORjwsCDzC8s+0ytb/JNhRY609+WpO0pdZdvg5w67ih2PIgtTxUpnOkGzZ13MJ81B48k BAFzjiG0DBYT7NgEH3XMT7vAA7yYSMdL4mznmunx8JmQP6O8pOqUIzokdOuWAJ9ZwMbS e/Ac2cRNso8RgK9Rw9z43WJnP4xdZ8bPY4Xk7tKhRAuGqVAIlN6YSM7N/6MYeIwHbUj4 Ia0tJa/Qo9TgB+V+fX5RqZ7G6wRnugCMQGrIOELb3itifV1kq+Xm5JDnnHbfXnOWUM0l gxdg== 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 10.180.8.164 with SMTP id s4mr13095589wia.6.1332087448004; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:17:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.8.68 with HTTP; Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:17:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:17:27 -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: 2b752f9a-8686-48d0-817f-9c7a261100e2 X-Archives-Hash: 809ccb12af28ecb3ce47ceb695d617a2 On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > 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= =A0Are >>> 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 = be 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 Keeping in mind that I'm _not_ using or even testing backlighting, the place where I controlled whether the laptop got screen locked or hibernated was in the KDE System Settings app where I disabled all such stuff. Now the screen just goes black when the lid is closed, saving some power, but nothing locks, sleeps, hibernates or any other such response. I did nothing in the kernel that I see. HTH, Mark