Re: Monitor powerdown on idle
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:34:05PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:55:15PM -0700, Steve Gran wrote:
> > I have a question about getting the monitor to properly powerdown
> > when idle. Right now the box shuts off the display, but the
> > monitor still has a backlight on, and the light is green,
> > indicating it's still getting feed from the video card. What I
> > would lie to do is have the monitor completely go black when idle,
> > as I think that if I keep running it as is, I'm going to end up
> > prematurely frying the poor thing. I'm running Woody on a 2.4.2
> > kernel, and I have APM enabled in the kernel. It's a Viewsonic
> > monitor that has the usual array of power saving features, and a
> > Rage 128 video card. I assume I have to add a line to lilo.conf,
> > but I'm not sure that this is the best way, or the syntax for doing
> > so.
>
> You don't need to touch LILO. You've got several options for doing it.
> Run 'man XF86Config' and search for 'DPMS'. Or run 'man xset' and
> search for 'dpms'. Or use xscreensaver and configure it to control
> DPMS.
See 'man setterm' for options when not running X.
Bob
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