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From: Vladimir Rusinov <vladimir@greenmice.info>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to turn off the screen permanently
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:49:37 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f6fdfb550902190149p6e8a0eaevf97ce41a2bc5c029@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3cbca78e0902150322n513217afrfcdfc5cb6a42c0c1@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Marcin Zwd <marcinzwd@gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, I've just upgraded my laptop. The old one has ati
> radeon r250 graphics card.  On this card I can easily turn
> off the screen using nice program "radeantool" of course
> "xset dpms force off" worked as well. And "turn off" was
> permanent.  It is worth to mention that I was using
> x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati opensource drivers...  On the
> other hand, the new laptop has nvidia (quadro 135) aboard
> and now I'm using x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.82.
> Everything works fine except one tiny problem now if I turn
> off the screen and backlight after a few seconds the
> backlight is back on!


Try following:
sleep 1 && xset dpms force off



-- 
Vladimir Rusinov
http://greenmice.info/

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-19  9:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-15 11:22 [gentoo-user] How to turn off the screen permanently Marcin Zwd
2009-02-15 11:56 ` [gentoo-user] " Marcin Zwd
2009-02-19  9:49 ` Vladimir Rusinov [this message]
2009-02-19 12:58   ` [gentoo-user] " Saphirus Sage
2009-02-20 19:16     ` Marcin Zwd
2009-02-20 19:00   ` Marcin Zwd
2009-02-21 15:25     ` Florian Philipp
2009-02-22 10:15       ` Marcin Zwd
2009-02-22 11:53         ` Marcin Zwd

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