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Old 6th August 2008
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Originally Posted by 18Googol2 View Post
As I understand, you want your screen to turn off when the lid is closed and back again after opening the lid?

Under root privilege:

#sysctl hw.acpi.reset_video=1

Now close the lid and open it again, the light should be back.

For permanent setting:

# echo "hw.acpi.reset_video=1" >> /etc/sysctl.conf
Yes, you have understood what I want, but setting hw.acpi.reset_video to 1 did not give any positive results, and even after putting it in sysctl.conf and rebooting system screen turning of and on did not worked...
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