I believe that if you cannot do it with the BIOS, you can buy an adapter that plugs into the video out jack on the back of the laptop, that will shut it off. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 10:52 AM Subject: shutting off the screen on a laptop -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all. I didn't see a way to do this in the bios, so I thought there might be something I don't know about to turn off the screen on a laptop under the gnu/linux text console. I have obviously no use for it, it uses up battery power that could be better used elsewhere, and there are times when I'd prefer that others couldn't glance over my shoulder to see what I'm doing. Thanks in advance. Greg - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEGEZX7s9z/XlyUyARAupEAJoCqO7g6Hx8vISQCygUoJ88gsgY8gCfedLP N4ttEQMtBbRE0vYmRac0QiE= =7A2z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
