disabling/dimming the monitor

[Kerry Hoath]

Depends on the laptop. Some can dim using acpi, many have a video card 
specific tool like radion-tool that can set the backlight.

Asus has ACPI modules that control screen brightness and the like for 
their hardware.
If your acpi-support scripts are good enough the laptop brightness keys 
can also work whatever they are.
Putting a light towell over the screen also works if you can get none of 
the above to go.
Regards, Kerry.


On 8/11/2011 8:45 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.
>