On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 07:23:30 -0500
Dan Gordon wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 09:44:28 +0000
> John Richard Smith wrote:
>
> > The choices in setterm seem to be,
> >
> > [ -powersave [on | vsync | hsync | powerdown | off] ]
> > which I took to mean,
> > powersave on with Verticle and horizontal syncronisation and
> > powerdown off.[ -powerdown [0-60] ]
> > this sets the time in minutes to elapse before powerdown
> > [ -blank [0-60] ]
> > I'm not sure what this does.
> >
> > So from the above info it seems to me there is no powersave off
> > option. It's there by virtue of being a component of the energy
> > saving CRT monitor. So, while the parameters of the powersave and
> > powerdown can be altered in so much as the timescale is within
> > limits, there is, in my judgement, no option to switch powersave
> > off. Correct me if I am wrong.
> >
>
> Seems to be the case, and -blank 0 or -powerdown 0 had no effect
> either. I'm beginning to think it a issue with xscreensaver. I can set
> the time to blank to 0, power down to 0 and such from there then
> deselect the power saving opton but it still seems to work. If i set
> the time to the max amount i think it is 1440 or something then
> deselect power saving it takes that long to blank and power down. I'm
> going to install a newer version and see if that does anything.
>
Thats not right, 1440 is 24 hours, its not waiting that long. hummm.
I think I'm just going to not worry about this any longer.
Regards,
Dan Gordon
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