On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 07:41:30AM EDT, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-29 03:47, Paul Johnson wrote:
>> s/kbd/console-tools/ >> > > What's the difference? (There seems to have been a fork...) console-tools appears to be the default on debian systems and the rumor has it that it is more current than kbd in terms of capability (?) I use kbd, IIRC because it has a "showconsolefont" command that came in handy at some point - there may have been other reasons as well, I don't remember. As to turning off the backlight of your LCD on the linux console, you could take a look a vbetool - pretty sure I managed to turn it off via: # vbetool dpms off But I also had problems turning it back on, and I had to restart the system, so be prepared for some blind typing & reboots. Never managed to get the LCD to switch itself off automatically with the /etc/kbd/config options - could be a limitation of kbd, my hardware, kernel configuration, or it may have something to do with my using the extended capabilities of the atyfb console driver instead of vesafb. CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
