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SubjectNo DPMS for Console on x86_64
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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