Monitor power saving (seems to be a FAQ).

1997-09-02 Thread Rob Browning 

There are really 2 issues: getting X to do power saving, and getting
the text console to do power saving.

This is how I set all my consoles to all have powersaving enabled:

  #!/bin/sh
  # File: /etc/rc.boot/0vc-powersave
  # Turn on power-saving on the VC's

  test -f /usr/bin/setterm || exit 0

  echo -n Turning power-saving on for VC's:
  for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6
  do
setterm -powersave  /dev/tty$i
setterm -blank 15  /dev/tty$i
echo -n  $i
  done
  echo .
  exit 0

And this is how I get X to have powersaving enabled:

from /etc/X11/XF86Config

  Section Device
 ...
 Option power_saver
 ...
  EndSection 

From the end of my /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0

  xset dpms 600 900 

The command used to be xset s power..., so if you have an older
version of xset than I do then you might need the following instead:

  # Turn on the builtin screensaver
  xset s 480
  # and set the monitor shutdown time
  xset s power 900 900

That should do it.
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Rob


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Re: Monitor power saving (seems to be a FAQ).

1997-09-02 Thread Will Lowe 
On 1 Sep 1997, Rob Browning wrote:

Where do you do this? Bash_profile?

 This is how I set all my consoles to all have powersaving enabled:
 
   #!/bin/sh
   # File: /etc/rc.boot/0vc-powersave
   # Turn on power-saving on the VC's
 
   test -f /usr/bin/setterm || exit 0
 
   echo -n Turning power-saving on for VC's:
   for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6
   do
 setterm -powersave  /dev/tty$i
 setterm -blank 15  /dev/tty$i
 echo -n  $i
   done
   echo .
   exit 0
 

Will

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Re: Monitor power saving (seems to be a FAQ).

1997-09-02 Thread Rob Browning 
Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 On 1 Sep 1997, Rob Browning wrote:
 
 Where do you do this? Bash_profile?

#!/bin/sh
# File: /etc/rc.boot/0vc-powersave
# Turn on power-saving on the VC's

Note:

  # File: /etc/rc.boot/0vc-powersave

So it's in /etc/rc.boot/0vc-powersave, hence it happens every time the
machine boots.

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Re: Monitor power saving (seems to be a FAQ).

1997-09-02 Thread Will Lowe 
On 2 Sep 1997, Rob Browning wrote:

 Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
  On 1 Sep 1997, Rob Browning wrote:
  
  Where do you do this? Bash_profile?
 
 Note:
 
   # File: /etc/rc.boot/0vc-powersave

Oops,  yeah,  I found it.  Thanks.
Will

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