On Friday 28 July 2006 01:49, Osho GG wrote: [...] > Two things I find surprising: > > 1. Black screensaver doesn't save power as I thought it does. In fact, > it consumes a little more power than a screensaver that just displays > a white screen and does nothing else. (Section 4.1.2.).
In fact nobody say that a blank screensaver save any power directly. We use a blank screensaver only to avoid using a random, in bad cases 3D/OpenGL, screensaver which cost CPU. The place where we save power are the DPMS settings (in the KPowersave 'Powersave' scheme: 2/3/5 minutes). Btw. IMO the difference between a white screen and a black screen (or blanked screensaver) is more theoretical (I could not find any measurement results about that in the pdf) and has no significant effect to the battery (at least also because we go after 2 minutes to DPMS and off the backlight). Danny _______________________________________________ powersave-devel mailing list [email protected] http://forge.novell.com/mailman/listinfo/powersave-devel
