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Topic: Toshiba Satellite 4600, Can't blank the LCD screen, trying to use xset< Next Oldest | Next Newest >
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Posted: Feb. 06 2008,22:20 QUOTE
Hello, i have the toshiba satellite 4600 laptop.

It will only boot if i do: fb1024x768 acpi=off

Once i do that, the laptop runs dsl linux great...only issue is that it will not turn off the lcd with this command:

xset s reset
xset s on
xset s 2


When i run this command, i get no errors of any sort. It's like it just ignores the request or something.

Any ideas?
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Posted: Feb. 07 2008,02:00 QUOTE
Since you're not using acpi, did you try using apm?
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Posted: Feb. 07 2008,04:08 QUOTE
how do i load apm? Do i do a simple   amp=yes  on the grub bootline?

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Posted: Feb. 07 2008,06:40 QUOTE
Maybe something like noacpi acpi=off apm=on
Probably easier to confirm by looking up another thread, or docs, etc.
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Posted: Feb. 07 2008,19:25 QUOTE
ok, so it seems that if i don't have noapm in the bootcode, then apm loads. But how do i check it, and more importantly, how do i shut the screen/backlight off using apm?

I tried the various xset commands, but those don't do anything.

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