On May 7, 2004, Vibol Hou <vibol@xxxxxxxx> 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 :-) -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
