Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 May 2006 20:01:59 +0200 | From | Thomas Zehetbauer <> | Subject | No DPMS for Console on x86_64 |
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Unfortunately it seems that setterm's powersaving (DPMS) capabilities depend an APM support in the kernel and are therefore unavailable on the x86_64 architecture.
This shortcoming may have seemed unimportant when Opteron started in the server segment but there is a growing number of AMD Turion mobiles that could greatly benefit from this feature.
I wonder how difficult it would be, to port APM to the x86_64 architecture or to provide DPMS support in the FBDev drivers.
Tom
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