Re: VESA DPMS Driver

From: Anish Mistry (mistry.7_at_osu.edu)
Date: 04/29/04

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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 15:55:12 -0400

    On Thursday 29 April 2004 01:20 am, Benjamin Close wrote:
    > Hi All,
    > I like many have suffered the battery drain of the laptop screen
    > remaining on while the system is suspended. I've created a driver that
    > allows the screen to be shutdown by DPMS provided acpi supports video
    > mode changes. Beware, this is my first kernel driver so it's nothing
    > great. Hopefully it will help someone with enough knowledge build a
    > better driver.
    >
    > It's a loadable kernel module and the only tweak required to get it
    > compiling should be in the Makefile.
    >
    > You can grab it from:
    > http://www.clearchain.com/people/benjsc/download/vesa_dpms.tar.gz
    > A URL as the list strips attachments.
    >
    > Cheers,
    > Benjamin
    Thanks Benjamin! This is exactly what I've been hoping for. It seems to fix
    my final ACPI problem. :) Could we get a committer to take a look. This
    seems like something that would be nice to get into 5.3. 

    -- 
Anish Mistry

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