Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-16 Thread Denis Kosygin
Gerald Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But when I was running redhat 6.0 the X screen also blanked in a way that made the monitor switch off... why isn't that possible with my potato? In X session `xset dpms force off' will turn off the monitor right away. Xset manual page (section related

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-16 Thread Damien
In X session `xset dpms force off' will turn off the monitor right away. Xset manual page (section related to dpms option) tells how to set the timing parameters to do this after a period of inactivity. doing this under x/4 just blanks my screens (the second head of the g400 usually turning a

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-16 Thread Matthew Emmett
Eric G . Miller egm2@jps.net writes: On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 08:36:44PM -0400, John Anderson wrote: You have to compile a custom kernel with APM support enabled, and monitor power saving enabled under the apm section. The monitor will use power saving only in the character mode, so if you

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-16 Thread Erik Steffl
Bob Nielsen wrote: If you want it to go into the low-power green mode (light turns amber) you can run: /usr/bin/setterm -powersave on This works in a VC. For X you need to put the following in your XF86Config: Option power_saver # enable VESA DPMS or use xset erik

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-16 Thread kmself
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 01:43:04AM +0200, Gerald Richter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi! anyone remember how to get the monitor not just go black, but tell it to use the -what was it called? vesa-compliant green-mode stuff-thing... in ~/.xsession or /etc/X11/Xsession, add: xset

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-16 Thread William Jensen
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 10:32:54PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 01:43:04AM +0200, Gerald Richter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi! anyone remember how to get the monitor not just go black, but tell it to use the -what was it called? vesa-compliant

make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-15 Thread Gerald Richter
Hi! anyone remember how to get the monitor not just go black, but tell it to use the -what was it called? vesa-compliant green-mode stuff-thing... Thanx! Gerald -- .oO nothing like |P| Gerald Manfred Richter Zen |A|

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-15 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 01:43:04AM +0200, Gerald Richter wrote: anyone remember how to get the monitor not just go black, but tell it to use the -what was it called? vesa-compliant green-mode stuff-thing... You want your monitor to be switched off, don't you? Did you enable Enable console

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-15 Thread John Anderson
You have to compile a custom kernel with APM support enabled, and monitor power saving enabled under the apm section. The monitor will use power saving only in the character mode, so if you use X exclusively, you might be out of luck.

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-15 Thread Gerald Richter
John Anderson wrote: You have to compile a custom kernel with APM support enabled, and monitor power saving enabled under the apm section. The monitor will use power saving only in the character mode, so if you use X exclusively, you might be out of luck. Well, seems I've forgotten to

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-15 Thread John Anderson
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Gerald Richter wrote: John Anderson wrote: You have to compile a custom kernel with APM support enabled, and monitor power saving enabled under the apm section. The monitor will use power saving only in the character mode, so if you use X exclusively, you might

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-15 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 08:36:44PM -0400, John Anderson wrote: You have to compile a custom kernel with APM support enabled, and monitor power saving enabled under the apm section. The monitor will use power saving only in the character mode, so if you use X exclusively, you might be out of

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
If you want it to go into the low-power green mode (light turns amber) you can run: /usr/bin/setterm -powersave on This works in a VC. For X you need to put the following in your XF86Config: Option power_saver # enable VESA DPMS On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 09:08:18PM -0400, John Anderson