Re: Monitor powerdown on idle
On 4 May 2001 12:55:15 -0700, Steve Gran said:
> 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.
Works for me fine with these settings:
- I had to add append="apm=on" to lilo.conf
- I added the following lines in the SeverFlags-Section of my XF86Config:
Option "BlankTime" "<minutes>"
Option "StandbyTime" "<minutes>"
Option "SuspendTime" "<minutes>"
Option "OffTime" "<minutes>"
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Thomas Hess mailto:thomas_h.@gmx.li
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