Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Gerald Richter wrote:
> John Anderson wrote:
> >
> > You have to compile a custom kernel with APM support enabled, and monitor
> > power saving enabled under the apm section. The monitor will use power
> > saving only in the character mode, so if you use X exclusively, you might
> > be out of luck.
> >
>
> Well, seems I've forgotten to activate that!
>
> But when I was running redhat 6.0 the X screen also blanked in a way
> that made the monitor switch off...
> why isn't that possible with my potato?
>
Do you really mean the monitor shut offs completely or did the monitor
light blink or turn amber? You have to download the kernel-source
package(s) through dselect and then in the /usr/src/linux dir <tar Ixvf
kernel-sources-2.2...>, them make menuconfig, you will be presented with a
nice menu driven program. Select the APM features I mentioned earlier.
then save the configuration upon exiting the program. then issue the
command <make dep> and after that is run, <make zlilo>. If the kernel
compiles correctly you can reboot it and the new kernel should take
effect.
> > Thanx!
> Gerald.
>
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