Re: [9fans] RaspberryPi, monitor energy saving

2014-05-16 Thread Steve Simon
i believe that this works for vga attached monitors, vesa says that when the clocks disappear on the sync the monitor should shutdown. the raspberry pi uses hdmi and also it doesn't use a vesa bios, it has a gpu bios which does a similar job but is not standardised, and, though it is

Re: [9fans] RaspberryPi, monitor energy saving

2014-05-16 Thread erik quanstrom
On Fri May 16 04:47:03 EDT 2014, st...@quintile.net wrote: i believe that this works for vga attached monitors, vesa says that when the clocks disappear on the sync the monitor should shutdown. the raspberry pi uses hdmi and also it doesn't use a vesa bios, it has a gpu bios which does

Re: [9fans] RaspberryPi, monitor energy saving

2014-05-16 Thread Steve Simon
Mmm, that feels like good and bad news. I know richard did what he could to shut down the screen when its idle for a while so that seems to do the right thing with vga monitors, but I guess I do need CEC. Oh well, time for more digging. -Steve

Re: [9fans] RaspberryPi, monitor energy saving

2014-05-16 Thread erik quanstrom
On Fri May 16 08:33:41 EDT 2014, st...@quintile.net wrote: Mmm, that feels like good and bad news. I know richard did what he could to shut down the screen when its idle for a while so that seems to do the right thing with vga monitors, but I guess I do need CEC. Oh well, time for more

Re: [9fans] RaspberryPi, monitor energy saving

2014-05-16 Thread Bakul Shah
On May 16, 2014, at 5:43 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.net wrote: On Fri May 16 08:33:41 EDT 2014, st...@quintile.net wrote: Mmm, that feels like good and bad news. I know richard did what he could to shut down the screen when its idle for a while so that seems to do the right

[9fans] RaspberryPi, monitor energy saving

2014-05-15 Thread Steve Simon
Its just wonderful to have a raspberry pi as a plan9 terminal, but the energy saving of the pi is outweighed by the monitor I use. The Pi's display code blanks the screen after a while but this does not shutdown the monitor. I dug a little and it seems I need to send CEC (Consumer Electronics

Re: [9fans] RaspberryPi, monitor energy saving

2014-05-15 Thread Bakul Shah
On Thu, 15 May 2014 22:04:34 BST Steve Simon st...@quintile.net wrote: Its just wonderful to have a raspberry pi as a plan9 terminal, but the energy saving of the pi is outweighed by the monitor I use. The Pi's display code blanks the screen after a while but this does not shutdown the

Re: [9fans] RaspberryPi, monitor energy saving

2014-05-15 Thread Shane Morris
This might be wildly off the mark, but is there something VESA related to do this, VGA monitors, et al? I prepare to stand flamed. ^.^ On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Bakul Shah ba...@bitblocks.com wrote: On Thu, 15 May 2014 22:04:34 BST Steve Simon st...@quintile.net wrote: Its just