Tobias Marx enlightened the whole world with this utterance:

>Date: 03 Jan 2002 00:05:48 +0100
>From: Tobias Marx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [expert] dpms?
>
>Am Mon, 2001-12-31 um 23.16 schrieb Ken Thompson:
>
>> Instead of commenting out the line try Option DPMS (off),
>> Works for me on all 5 of my MDK 8.1 systems...
>
>but then it will be off! ;)
>
>no, seriously. mplayer switches dpms off for the period it's playing
>something. imho better behaviour than ogle. i like dpms.
>
>
I guess it depends on your environment.  If I was in an office, I might
want my screen blanking on it's own.  Here at home on my network, if I'm
not using my monitors, I turn them off.  I don't really like the computer
deciding when I should have a display.

Just me, Mike




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