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DateMon, 23 Mar 1998 00:13:08 -0500 (EST)
From"C. Scott Ananian" <>
SubjectRe: Laptop APM failure
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Dave Wreski wrote:

> > 1) Display blanking:> >    I believe this is an XFree bug.  An upgrade to the latest version has
> >    been reported to fix this.> > Sorry, I should have mentioned that I don't even have X running on this
> laptop.  This is strictly a console problem (so far).
[...]
> Hmm.  How can we explain the fact that it does work in winblows?

Perhaps windows is using VESA screen blanking instead of APM screen
blanking?

A perusal of the linux code seemed to indicate that VESA blanking would be
attempted if APM blanking failed, but perhaps I wasn't reading as
carefully as I should have been?
 --Scott
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