Turning off laptop screen?

Igor Gueths igueths at lava-net.com
Sat Oct 24 19:29:04 EDT 2009


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Hi. Depending on your laptop, you may have hotkeys for raising and lowering your
brightness. If your laptop has a Radeon card, there is a program called
Radeontool that can manipulate registers on the video card, that in turn darkens
the backlight. Hth.
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 10:19:10AM -1000, David Sexton wrote:
> Any way to turn off the laptop screen while using linux? I don't  need it and the battery savings would be nice
> 
> Computer: dell inspiron 
> OS: Ubuntu 9.04 64bit
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