Automatically turn off my laptop screen

[philosopher_sam]

To fellow Gentoo users:

Is there anything I can emerge that would simply force my laptop screen to shut off (to save power) instead of only blanking? There is a different between a blank screen and a screen that is off .

Regards,

Sam

[nein]

/usr/X11R6/bin/xset -display :0 dpms force off

[nein]

I forgot to say the before mentioned command is run by acpid when I close the lid

[philosopher_sam]

The command above does work. Forgive the very newbie question, how would I configure the system to give that command when I close the lid?

Thanks,

Sam

[mayday147]

maybe you just have to compile the kernel with ACPI support
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[nein]

If you have acpi compiled in your kernel you just need acpid (emerge -p acpid). You can create scripts than will be run when a acpi event happens: closed lid, suspend, etc.

[philosopher_sam]

Thanks to all of you for help.

I emerged the acpid package. Any suggestion on how I would get started making such scripts?

Thanks again,

Sam

P.S. I will start looking for documentation.

[Earthwings]

http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uxhz/gentoo/power-management

[albright]

below is a sample /etc/acpi/default.sh script; the "lid" action
is to put the computer to sleep (and fix a little clock problem
when it wakes up ); you can replace it with the dpms force
off command, or add that command or whatever. On my acer
there is a little switch that forces the screen off when the lid
is closed so I don't need to tell the computer that ...
(formatting is bit messed up here ... esp. indentation)

#!/bin/sh
# Default acpi script that takes an entry for all actions

set $*

group=${1/\/*/}
action=${1/*\//}

case "$group" in
button)
case "$action" in
power) /sbin/init 0
;;

lid) if cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state | grep -q closed; then
/bin/echo 1 > /proc/acpi/sleep && hwclock --hctosys
fi
;;

*) logger "ACPI action $action is not defined"
;;
esac
;;

battery) if cat /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC/state | grep -q off; then
/bin/echo 500000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed
else /bin/echo 600000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed
fi
;;
*)
logger "ACPI group $group / action $action is not defined"
;;
esac