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fglrx-installer package

  1. Bug #363059
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 363059

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Martin Burch (mburch) wrote : Re: [jaunty] dpms does not switch off backlight on laptop screen

I am having the a similar problem with a Compaq Presario V5000, ATI Radeon 200M graphics and the open source drivers: changing the power management or screensaver options just blanks the screen.

However both "xset dpms force off" and "sudo vbetool dpms off" turn off the backlight for me.