Re: dimming monitor power?
- From: Kerneels Roos <kerneels@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:05:06 +0200
Hi. Have you studied the manual. Maybe there's a function key + left arrow,
right arrow or some other keystroke to dimm the monitor. Have you had a
look, or had someone look for ou around in the BIOS for a way to perminantly
disable the monitor?
I've noticed before that if you don't actually have an external monitor
plugged in some laptops don't allow you to switch off the laptop's own
screen.
You might be able to buy a protective film with a heavy tint which you can
stick over the laptop screen. Other than that, you could ask a PC repair
shop to simply disconnect the laptop screen all together -- even remove it.
Laptop screens damage quite quickly so a brand new screen as a reusable part
might be worth quite a lot -- they could refund you for example. Maybe they
could even take your working screen and replace it with a broken one so you
still retain the lid feature of the screenn.
Keep well.
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Dave <davidct1209@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yep. Never tried it on a laptop. Good to know it doesn't work.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Aug 23, 2010, at 6:42 AM, "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > I tried the sc_monitorpower; should've mentioned it. I think it only
> works on desktops, as it didn't make a difference to the brightness.
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave" <davidct1209@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010 10:21 PM
> > Subject: Re: dimming monitor power?
> >
> >
> >> My $.02:
> >>
> >> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms646360(VS.85).aspx<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms646360%28VS.85%29.aspx>
> >>
> >> There are some win32 window messages that allow you to do this
> >> programmatically that you can play with (WM_SYSCOMMAND with
> >> SC_MONITORPOWER in particular).
> >>
> >> On 8/22/10, Littlefield, Tyler <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> Hello all,
> >>> It seems like every time I get a new laptop this ends up happening, and
> I
> >>> haven't found a workaround.
> >>> On my toshiba laptop, I can go to intel graphics controler and set the
> >>> monitor from notebook to monitor, and it sends all the info to the
> video
> >>> port.
> >>> Sadly, this doesn't seem to be the case with the new system.
> >>> I have dimmed the brightness, but my pupels don't contract, so the
> light
> >>> burns my eyes when I'm staring at it, and I'd love to just kill the
> monitor
> >>> for the sake of saving battery power anyway.
> >>> My idea was to write a dummy monitor device driver--is anyone good
> enough
> >>> with the DDK to pull this off?
> >>> I was tinkering with it, but I haven't gotten anywhere, besides lots of
> >>> errors... I'm thinking I can just reserve a bit of memory and let it
> write
> >>> to that memory and just let it keep writing there, and set the other
> >>> functions to just return whatever value they need to be.
> >>> Besides allowing me to set the monitor to that, it would also possibly
> speed
> >>> things up (I think). And it'd save my eyeballs, of course. :)
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> ty
> >>>
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