Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 May 2006 23:30:09 +0200 (MEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: 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. >
There are some backlight drivers in the kernel. Currently however the only supported device is Sharp Corgi. Would it be possible to make DPMS signalling a backlight driver? (Without the APM overhead.) vgacon for example leaves the backlight on while in X11, DPMS is enabled and signals standby after the timeout.
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