Yes, the man page from slackware 8.0 showed some interesting news about. I wish there was a bit more info on the suspend vs powerdown options but that gives me something to play with. It appears I would need to have the term blank out as it does now and have powersave set to powerdown and give a value to -powerdown to make it all happen. Wonder if that's the right approach or if it is even simpler than that. On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Kerry Hoath wrote: > Yes Linux supports VESA power saving features. > man setterm and it will tell you how to enable it for the console. > It will wake up however if syslog or another program scrolls text to the screen > since if it didn't you'd never see a kernel panic. > > Regards, Kerry. > On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 07:58:58AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > > I'm aware of screen blanking but I was thinking more of the "power saving" > > feature of these newer monitors. I wonder if that is possible under linux? > > Those things can heat up quite a big when left sitting around all day. I > > know, there is the power off button:) but I'm just trying to do the same > > thing those windows boys are doing. Once in a little while, windows > > actually comes up with something nice:) > > > > On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Frank Carmickle wrote: > > > > > Steve > > > > > > console blanking is enabled by default on most distros. In slackware look > > > for 'blank' in /etc/rc.d/rc.M and I can't find where it does it on my > > > debian system. It is an option to setterm called -blank if you can find > > > it. > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
