On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Jeffrey Smelser wrote: > All, > > I have been looking around for a way to shutdown the monitor after x > minutes of activity.. Right now console blanks the monitor but the > monitor is still 'on'. Obviously in X it supports turning the monitor > off via the screen saver. But I don't have X.. I have looked at apmd and > so forth and they talk about shutting down hard drives and such, but > nothing about the monitor.. > > Did I miss something?? I even looked into some of the configuration > files and it didn't say a thing about a monitor..
Do you have APM or ACPI compiled into your kernel? If you have APM, there's an option to enable monitor blanking. I'm not sure if there's any particular option for ACPI. But if you don't have power management, you won't be able to shut down the monitor. This is a kernel-level thing, no other daemons are necessary. And of course your monitor must support this. -- Marshal Newrock, unemployed Linux user in Lansing, MI Caution: Product will be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
