disabling/dimming the monitor

Igor Gueths igueths at lava-net.com
Mon Nov 7 20:12:37 EST 2011


Hi Tyler, Vbetool (http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/vbetool) should do what you
want. I've used this program for quite some time on my own machine, and it works
quite well. 
On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 05:45:32PM -0700, 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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> Ty
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