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Altering the backlight dim timeout on a Thinkpad laptop

It seems something else than gnome-power-manager manages the backlight dim timeout on Thinkpads, maybe thinkpad-acpi. How do you alter the timeout from 5 seconds? (which is very annoying)
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Turning off the backlight on the console [closed]

I'm using an IBM Thinkpad X21 as a 3G router. It's running a server install of lucid. The laptop has the lid up most of the time. There is no X, just a plain console. The colsole blanks itself, but ...