Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > >DPMS stands for something like 'Display Power Management System'. With this > >option, the server tries to put the monitor to standby, suspend and > >eventually power it down (which can damage monitors that don't support > >DPMS). I don't know if it makes any difference on a Pismo, anyway. :) > > Well, if X properly calls the fbdev blank functions that does VESA > blanking,
Doesn't look like any driver except fbdev uses it yet... a new item on my TODO list I suppose. ;) > you'll have the nice side effect of also powering down the backlight, and > maybe more soon once I've figured out some issues. Do you know if there is any truth about powering TFTs on and off often shortening their lifetime? I read that in the German magazine c't which is usually competent. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
