Subject: Re: enabling the APM_IOC_DEV_CTL ioctl
To: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
From: Johan Danielsson <joda@pdc.kth.se>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/22/2000 17:43:48
Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com> writes:

> Is there any reason not to enable APM_IOC_DEV_CTL?  The code is
> there, but "#if 0"d out.

If I remember correctly it didn't work correctly on everything, but I
don't think this is a good excuse. If we commented out everything that
didn't work on *some* pc, we wouldn't have much left.

> I leave my laptop on most of the time (it's the fastest PC I own),
> and it's bugged me that the LCD screen is on all the time (I don't
> suspect these things `burn in', but it still bugs me).

xset +dpms? (requires a dpms aware xfree driver)

/Johan