As an alternative to using VT IOCTLs you should be able to echo these
values to /sys/class/graphics/fb0/blank and blank the screen. The
attribute is pretty new so it hasn't had a lot of testing on the
various fbdev drivers.
#define VESA_NO_BLANKING 0
#define VESA_VSYNC_SUSPEND 1
#define VESA_HSYNC_SUSPEND 2
#define VESA_POWERDOWN 3
On 8/16/05, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 11:41 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> > (I'm blind and I use a braille display. I use those functions to blank
> > my laptop's screen so people don't read it, and hopefully to conserve
> > power.)
>
> Oops ! I _am_not_ the one who is blind, though thanks a lot for some of
> the comments ;) I just forgot the line:
>
> From: Stéphane Doyon <[email protected]>
>
> (I'm still stuck to Signed-off-by only lines)
>
>
> Stephane is to congratulate for this fix.
>
> Ben.
>
>
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