Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 25 Dec 1996 14:12:02 +0000 (GMT) | From | Philip Blundell <> | Subject | Re: Powersaving Monitor (DPMS) |
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On Wed, 25 Dec 1996, Jason Burrell wrote:
> minutes. Then, when activity wakes the VC blanker up and it releases its > blank, it turns the monitor back on.
The console blanker should be able to do this already. Say "setterm -powersave on" or something like that, or use the code in vesa_blank.c.
This won't work if you're running X. The Xserver would need modifying to support that - maybe it does already.
> tried with APM enabled and disabled in the CMOS, and compiled the kernel > with and without APM support. If I have APM support compiled into the
You shouldn't need APM in either the CMOS or the kernel to support DPMS blanking. It's independent.
phil
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