On Tue, 12 May 1998, Michael George wrote:
> > Well here we go again, Using a modern version of setterm see man setterm.
> > It is in there and (at least for me) it works for X. Look at the section
> > on powersave.
>
> Tom, thanks for the suggestion, but setterm's man page is highly terse. Even
> for a Unix man page! Terse to the point of uselessness. However, I figured
> there had to be a straightforward way to do what I wanted, so I set out
> looking.
Ok, I guess. Like the man pg says most of the options are self explainatory.
Something like
"setterm -powersave on|vsync|hsync|powerdown|off" you pick the options
Put it in the rc scripts and away you go. I must admit that the man page
is sparce but with a little playing you can figure it out and write a new
one. I got this working awhile back it worked as advertised but I turned it
off because my monitor would take too long to completly warm up. The screen
would be off center for about an hour so I turned it back off.
>
> I found that if you do a "man XF86Config" and search for "power_", you will
> find several settings which can be put into the /etc/X11/XF86Config file to
> control the power saving attribues. Unfortunately, (according to my docs)
> only the Mach64 and S3 X servers have the power_saver option. "man XF86_S3"
> will give more information on setting that option.
>
> After a quick test, this seems to work as expected. Hopefully this
> information can be helpful to others...
The problem with all of this is what happens if you leave the console
on one of the tty's? Does the screen blank or burn? It looks like too much
work to me.
......Tom "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards,
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Unix IS user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are.
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