Laptop screen not turning off in ACPI S1
Alexandre Oliva
aoliva at redhat.com
Sat May 8 03:12:22 UTC 2004
On May 7, 2004, Vibol Hou <vibol at khmer.cc> wrote:
> When I issue an echo -n "1" > /proc/acpi/sleep, my laptop (Dell Lat
> C400) enters the state, but the laptop screen does not turn off. Is
> there a way of getting the laptop screen to turn off in S1?
The ugly work around I found on my Dell Inspiron 8000 was to run:
sleep 5; echo ...
and then close the lid, such that the display is turned off. Then,
when you enter the sleep state, it remains so.
Yeah, yuck :-/ But it works :-)
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