Tom wrote:
> It's easy. When does a light bulb fail? When you turn it on. Why? All
> those cold, low resistance circuits draw a lot of current at turn on, there
> are mechanical as well as electrical stresses on all those junctions, to
> say nothing of the trauma to capacitors.
>
> The monitor is the power hungry beast in the configuration, but if you have
> a "green" monitor and take advantage of all the power saving features, you
> don't need to turn it off, it will do that by itself.
>
> Tom
Since you brought it up :-)
If I don't type anything on my computer for awhile while I am logged on,
it will eventually shut the monitor off (RH 6.1 and Gnome). So I know
that my system has the support for "green" mode. But when I am logged
out and the computer is at the graphical login prompt, it never powers
down the monitor. So I generally power it off by hand at the end of the
day.
I looked around quite a bit a few months ago for the fix for this, but
have been unable to figure it out. Any ideas?
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