On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > maybe i should clarify my question (mostly pertaining to desktops, but
> > laptops all the same)
> >
> > currently after about 10 minutes idle the monitor is put into
> > powersave mode (this is console, no X) on x86 this behavior is
> > controled via setterm -powersave and setterm -powerdown. these same
> > commands do nothing on powerpc. AFAICT the only way to change the 10
> > minute timeout is to hack the kernel source and recompile a new
> > kernel. i am asking to be proven wrong in that regard ;-)
>
> Geert claims setterm will call the appropriate fbdev hooks in that case.
> He's usually right in fbdev related things so I just took his word for it.
> I've no way of checking what this fbdev hook does on desktop powerpc
> machines, I can only look at the source, which I haven't done yet. What
> framebuffer driver are you using?
It should use the console's consw->con_blank() function, which gets routed to
VGA text or to fbcon (fbcon_blank()).
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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