Turn Display Off in Command-Line

frzburn · 01-20-2007, 06:32 PM

Hi, I use Gentoo 2006.1 on my Dell Inspiron 6400. I got the lid switch to work correctly in X, so my display turns off when I close the lid.

My problem is that when I only use the console (X server not started), the display stays on when I close the lid! So I need a way to get this done...

Thanks!

bigrigdriver · 01-20-2007, 11:02 PM

This might help. Scroll down to the section marked "screen off".

http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~dtay/linuxLaptop.shtml

frzburn · 01-21-2007, 10:51 AM

Yeah well, that's basically what I did for it to work in X, but it doesn't work when X isn't running...

Brian1 · 01-21-2007, 01:22 PM

Check out this post starting at #23. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...5&pagenumber=2
I would read the entire post to understand my notebook and how the lid button functions. I never got around to writing a single script that does the work of the two I use. Certainly they can be combined and do the simply flip flop sequence it is doing.

Brian

frzburn · 01-22-2007, 08:11 PM

Solved! I had the script right (from http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Dell_Inspiron_E1405), but heh, I didn't have vbetool compiled... It was masked!

So with vbetool and this script, everything is fine

Here are the files:

/etc/acpi/lid.sh:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
if grep -q open /proc/acpi/button/lid/*/state
  then vbetool dpms on
  else vbetool dpms off
fi

/etc/acpi/events/lid:

Code:

event=button[ /]lid.*
action=/etc/acpi/lid.sh

Brian1 · 01-24-2007, 03:14 PM

Glad to see you got it going.

Brian