On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Stuart Anderson wrote:
> On 21 Dec 2001, Michel [ISO-8859-1] Dänzer wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 16:09, Nate Pearlstein wrote:
> >
> > > 1. DPMS doesn't work. I looked in the source and it seems that DPMS
> > > only gets turned on if connected to a CRT. Why shouldn't this work for
> > > a flatpanel?
> >
> > Why should it? ;) I think DPMS was conceived for CRTs so I wouldn't
> > expect it to apply to flat panels naturally.
>
> I had notice the same thing int he ATI driver. On my laptop, Windows can
> completely shutdown the LCD screen, but under X, it doesn't. It seems
> perfectly reasonable for DPMS to also apply to LCDs, though the actual
> energy savings might be less.
>
I think the corresponding code is simply not implemented. Because the LCD
(and backlight) on my Rage Mobility notebook is turned off when I use
external monitor. So X knows how to turn it off, just does not do it for
DPMS.
Vladimir Dergachev
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