Hi, first of all it might be useful how DPMS works, http://webpages.charter.net/dperr/dpms.htm Instead of using X you could try to use some kind of Vesa feature. Maybe your bios has a revealed interface in Linux for that feature too Markus On 10/11/06, Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Raseel Bhagat wrote: > Hi > > On 10/11/06, Henry Margies <henry.margies@xxxxxx> wrote: >> Maybe it also helps to look at the sources of xset program of X11. >> >> xset dpms force off >> >> Turns off the monitor (until you press a key or so). > > But what if I'm not on the X-window ? > As in, I'm running this program from console, or one of the virtual > terminals ? You said you wanted to look at the code and xset is probably a good example. Whether it'll also work from the commandline with no active X system, that's for you to find out :-) /Per Jessen, Zurich - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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