monitor backlight won't turn off, wrote a daemon to force it on / off

[dave selby]

2009/5/4 Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com>:
> On Monday 04 May 2009, dave selby wrote:
>> It needs to be run as root, I start it by adding
>>
>> @reboot /usr/local/bin/backlight_daemon.py
>>
>> to my roots crontab. Its easier than setting up a /etc/init.d/...
>>
>> Anyhow it solved my problem and I wanted to share it with you guys,
>
> I just use this in my crontab:
>
> 3 * * * * /usr/bin/xset -display :0 dpms 1200,0,0

Cool, looks like I used a sledgehammer to crack a nut - which for me
is just about right !
I will make a note of the above but the daemon is working AOK for now
so will leave well alone.

Meantime I have an ATI driver issue I have to post,

Cheers

Dave