1.\" Copyright (c) 2008 Yahoo!, Inc. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" Written by: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> 4.\" 5.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 6.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 7.\" are met: 8.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 9.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 10.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 12.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 13.\" 3. Neither the name of the author nor the names of any co-contributors 14.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 15.\" without specific prior written permission. 16.\" 17.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 18.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 19.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 20.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 21.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 22.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 23.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 24.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 25.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 26.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 27.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 28.\" 29.\" $FreeBSD$ 30.\" 31.Dd August 23, 2008 32.Dt DPMS 4 33.Os 34.Sh NAME 35.Nm dpms 36.Nd VESA BIOS DPMS driver 37.Sh SYNOPSIS 38.Cd "device dpms" 39.Sh DESCRIPTION 40The 41.Nm 42driver uses the VESA BIOS to manage an external display during suspend and 43resume. 44When the machine suspends, 45the 46.Nm 47driver turns the external display off. 48When the machine resumes, 49it restores the display to its state when the driver was first loaded. 50.Sh SEE ALSO 51.Xr acpi_video 4 52.Sh BUGS 53.Pp 54The VESA BIOS DPMS calls do not provide any way to identify a particular 55display or adapter to manipulate. 56As a result, 57this driver may have unexpected results on systems with multiple displays 58and/or adapters. 59