On 4 May 2001 12:55:15 -0700, Steve Gran said:
> I have a question about getting the monitor to properly powerdown when idle.
> Right now the box shuts off the display, but the monitor still has a
> backlight on, and the light is green, indicating it's still getting feed from
> the video card. What I would lie to do is have the monitor completely go
> black when idle, as I think that if I keep running it as is, I'm going to end
> up prematurely frying the poor thing. I'm running Woody on a 2.4.2 kernel,
> and I have APM enabled in the kernel. It's a Viewsonic monitor that has the
> usual array of power saving features, and a Rage 128 video card. I assume I
> have to add a line to lilo.conf, but I'm not sure that this is the best way,
> or the syntax for doing so.
Works for me fine with these settings:
- I had to add append="apm=on" to lilo.conf
- I added the following lines in the SeverFlags-Section of my XF86Config:
Option "BlankTime" "<minutes>"
Option "StandbyTime" "<minutes>"
Option "SuspendTime" "<minutes>"
Option "OffTime" "<minutes>"
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