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SubjectRe: MDACON not screen blanking
Hello,

> How is it non trivial? Couldn't the code just be hacked so that
> when the monitor blanking code is executed, it checks for
> multiple monitors, and then blanks them all? Any quick hack is
> better than nothing IMHO. My mono monitor is going to burn in...

There are two non-trivial bits:

[1] There is no list of monitors.

[2] You need to distinguish between pseudo-blanking (used when
VGA enters graphics mode), real blanking and VESA blanking.

Have a nice fortnight
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Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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