I've got acpi working and I use it for other power management but not for the monitor shutdown, could you suggest me a place where I can read about it, please?
thanx, alb On Sep 18 at 05:03PM-0400, Marshal Newrock wrote: > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Jeffrey Smelser wrote: > > > All, > > > > I have been looking around for a way to shutdown the monitor after x > > minutes of activity.. Right now console blanks the monitor but the > > monitor is still 'on'. Obviously in X it supports turning the monitor > > off via the screen saver. But I don't have X.. I have looked at apmd and > > so forth and they talk about shutting down hard drives and such, but > > nothing about the monitor.. > > > > Did I miss something?? I even looked into some of the configuration > > files and it didn't say a thing about a monitor.. > > Do you have APM or ACPI compiled into your kernel? If you have APM, > there's an option to enable monitor blanking. I'm not sure if there's any > particular option for ACPI. But if you don't have power management, you > won't be able to shut down the monitor. This is a kernel-level thing, no > other daemons are necessary. > > And of course your monitor must support this. > > -- > Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI > Caution: Product will be hot after heating > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
