Screen won't shut off on Dell i8100 with FC2

[Gregory Gulik]

I didn't try closing the screen but one data point is that I'm running 
that system with acpi=off since the only way to get a reliable battery 
meter is with APM.

In case that matters at all.


Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> Didn't turn the backlight off on my I8000 with GeForce2Go, unless I
> hit Fn-D, which no longer works with ACPI enabled.  But there's
> something else on FC2: even with ACPI disabled, there's something that
> brings the screen back on after I hit Fn-D.  The only way I know to
> actually switch the screen off completely is to close the lid.  Then,
> even if I bring it back open, the screen remains off until I press
> some key.
> 

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