Plug & Play Monitors?

[Steve Holmes]

Yes, the man page from slackware 8.0 showed some interesting news about. I
wish there was a bit more info on the suspend vs powerdown options but
that gives me something to play with. It appears I would need to have the
term blank out as it does now and have powersave set to powerdown and give
a value to -powerdown to make it all happen. Wonder if that's the right
approach or if it is even simpler than that.

On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Kerry Hoath wrote:

> Yes Linux supports VESA power saving features.
> man setterm and it will tell you how to enable it for the console.
> It will wake up however if syslog or another program scrolls text to the screen
> since if it didn't you'd never see a kernel panic.
>
> Regards, Kerry.
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 07:58:58AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > I'm aware of screen blanking but I was thinking more of the "power saving"
> > feature of these newer monitors. I wonder if that is possible under linux?
> > Those things can heat up quite a big when left sitting around all day. I
> > know, there is the power off button:) but I'm just trying to do the same
> > thing those windows boys are doing. Once in a little while, windows
> > actually comes up with something nice:)
> >
> > On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Frank Carmickle wrote:
> >
> > > Steve
> > >
> > > console blanking is enabled by default on most distros.  In slackware look
> > > for 'blank' in /etc/rc.d/rc.M and I can't find where it does it on my
> > > debian system.  It is an option to setterm called -blank if you can find
> > > it.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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