On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:34:05PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:55:15PM -0700, Steve Gran wrote: > > I have a question about getting the monitor to properly powerdown > > when idle. Right now the box shuts off the display, but the > > monitor still has a backlight on, and the light is green, > > indicating it's still getting feed from the video card. What I > > would lie to do is have the monitor completely go black when idle, > > as I think that if I keep running it as is, I'm going to end up > > prematurely frying the poor thing. I'm running Woody on a 2.4.2 > > kernel, and I have APM enabled in the kernel. It's a Viewsonic > > monitor that has the usual array of power saving features, and a > > Rage 128 video card. I assume I have to add a line to lilo.conf, > > but I'm not sure that this is the best way, or the syntax for doing > > so. > > You don't need to touch LILO. You've got several options for doing it. > Run 'man XF86Config' and search for 'DPMS'. Or run 'man xset' and > search for 'dpms'. Or use xscreensaver and configure it to control > DPMS.
See 'man setterm' for options when not running X. Bob
