From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karol Kozimor Subject: Re: RE: preparing toshiba_acpi driver release Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 04:12:47 +0100 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <20040127031247.GA28233@hell.org.pl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: "Brown, Len" Cc: Ducrot Bruno , John Belmonte , acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Thus wrote Brown, Len: > I was thinking about ergonomics rather than power-savings -- though > probably brightness control has some power savings benefits too -- maybe > somebody on the list has numbers for screen power consumption? Last time I checked it was about 6 W for my 15" display (100% brightness, power consumption goes down linearly). What I consider more important, is the ability to switch the LCD on / off by demand -- unfortunately, DPMS is mostly unsupported on modern machines and a generic approach (provided it works) could make a difference here. Once I update the acpi4asus driver, I'll take a look on how those generic methods to manipulate video work here and see where it gets me. Best regards, -- Karol 'sziwan' Kozimor sziwan-DETuoxkZsSqrDJvtcaxF/A@public.gmane.org ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn