Re: Is the monitor ON?

[owens@netptc.net]

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>---- Original Message ----
>From: dave@sherohman.org
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: Is the monitor ON?
>Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 09:32:25 -0500
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>>On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 07:42:30AM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
>>> apropos dpms
>>> apt-cache search dpms
>>> man vbetool
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>>That all looks like power-management stuff (i.e., "has the computer
>told
>>the monitor to turn itself off?"), but I believe the OP is looking
>for a
>>way to determine whether the monitor is turned on or off at the
>switch.
>>Is DPMS also able to detect that state?
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>>For the OP, just to make sure your bases are covered, have you gone
>into
>>the monitor's setup menus and verified that it doesn't have a "turn
>on
>>after power loss" option?
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AFAIK the computer to monitor interface has no feedback telling the
computer that the monitor's power is ON.  If true then the computer
has no mechanism for determining the state of the monitor.
Larry
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