After 2 days of google, I finally found this:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200106/msg02817.html
>From the Above link:
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I picked this up a long time ago and have it in /etc/init.d/local:
<cite>
set_dpms() {
echo -n "Setting DPMS for text console: "
setterm -blank 5 -powersave on
echo -en "\033[9;8]"
echo -en "\033[14;10]"
echo "done."
}
set_dpms
</cite>
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I should have done a man setterm to see if it had that option.. Never actually thought
it did.. I am still looking though to make sure this is the best/only solution.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alberto Bert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 7:18 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Console Shut down monitor
>
>
> I've got acpi working and I use it for other power management but not
> for the monitor shutdown, could you suggest me a place where
> I can read
> about it, please?
>
> thanx,
> alb
>
> On Sep 18 at 05:03PM-0400, Marshal Newrock wrote:
> > 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
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