disabling/dimming the monitor

[David Sexton]

Hi,
This is what I use in gnome with ubuntu
vbetool dams off
that turns it off until you restart gnome or close and open the laptop for example.
so you should install vbetool for that to work, of course.
David
On 08-Nov-2011, at 6:15 AM, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:

> Hello all:
> I have a question. I'm going to be switching to my Linux box for full-time cli access for a while while I send in my laptop, and I was curious if there's a way to disable/turn the backlight way down. It would save me a lot of battery power to start with, but My eyes are also really sensative to the light, so having the monitor open and facing at it can give me some pretty bad headaches. Any ideas would be cool. I'm using arch at the moment, though I don't think that would matter much.
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