Hi Tyler, Vbetool (http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/vbetool) should do what you want. I've used this program for quite some time on my own machine, and it works quite well. On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 05:45:32PM -0700, Littlefield, Tyler wrote: > Hello all: > I have a question. I'm going to be switching to my Linux box for > full-time cli access for a while while I send in my laptop, and I > was curious if there's a way to disable/turn the backlight way down. > It would save me a lot of battery power to start with, but My eyes > are also really sensative to the light, so having the monitor open > and facing at it can give me some pretty bad headaches. Any ideas > would be cool. I'm using arch at the moment, though I don't think > that would matter much. > > -- > > Take care, > Ty > Web: http://tds-solutions.net > The Aspen project: a light-weight barebones mud engine > http://code.google.com/p/aspenmud > > Sent from my toaster. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > -- Igor -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.