>it true that an external monitor will not sleep when a Duo is docked in a
>Duo Dock?
It's possible that you're thinking of the feature where a Duo won't sleep
while connected to an external monitor (a different definition of "sleep").
An external monitor connected to the Dock's video out (a built-in NuBus
device, essentially) will sensibly go into its energy saving mode when the
timer that normally dims the Duo's LCD screen expires. This has been true
since at least 8.0, and probably earlier (my memory is dim too ;).
>I am running mine through a NuBus card and would have thought that I would
>have >bypassed the internal monitor circuitry that caused this. But no!
>However, the >Energy Saver control panel stupidly offers this as an option
>under the >"external power" setting
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>Is my only option a third party control panel that I've heard of that
>forces >external monitors to sleep? I think I actually tried it once, but
>it did not >stop the fan from spinning in the dock (if in fact it put the
>CPU to sleep) so >it didn't really solve
Quite likely. The Energy Saver control panel knows how to directly control
the video hardware built in to the Dock and automatically applies the "dim"
settings to that (either that or it knows how to talk to the driver
software for said hardware, which came with the OS). It probably doesn't
work automatically with anyone else's NuBus video card. If it's just a
matter of it notifying the driver then this is a policy decision ("we don't
want to have to support combinations of third-party hardware"), and if it
does the deed directly then it's a technical limitation - either way you
need something a bit more versatile. It is stupid, of course, since it's
software, but since it's referring to the Dock's supported and present
video hardware you can understand the miscommunication.
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