Re: powersaving on NW iMac?
Ethan Benson:
> On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 09:21:26AM -0800, Matt Brubeck wrote:
> > On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
> >
> > > the monitor should already go into powersaving on its own when in the
> > > console (does anynone know how to control that?), for X you need to
> > > either use xset to enable dpms or enable it in /etc/X11/XF86Config
> >
> > Unfortunately, the monitors in slot-loading iMacs will not do standard
> > VESA blanking / DPMS. Even in MacOS, they only turn black (not off) when
> > monitor sleep is enabled.
>
> your kidding! i thought all monitors made in semi recent times were
> capable of powersaving. i guess the iMac is not so modern after all :/
Just for the record (hm a traceroute to ppclinux.apple.com stops
within apple.com), setterm on the discussed system does not work,
it just blacks.
> > In MacOS, the monitor does turn off when the computer is put to sleep.
> > There's no way to do this in Linux currently (the PowerBook pmu code
> > doesn't support sleep on iMacs).
>
> it probably just cuts power entirely to the monitor tube itself,
> rather a kludge but... putting the entire machine to sleep is not as
> advantagous as just putting the monitor to sleep as full sleep will
> screw up cron, remote logins etc etc.
I'd be satisfied if there'd be a way to just not give it the power at
startup. Now assume there is the further complication of physically
not being able for the 4-finger-salute. Any hints?
ralf
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