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 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 lightburns my eyes when I'm staring at it, and I'd love to just kill the monitorfor 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 oferrors... I'm thinking I can just reserve a bit of memory and let it writeto 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 speedthings up (I think). And it'd save my eyeballs, of course. :) Thanks, ty __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind__________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
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