I am looking at stopping the vsync/hsycn completly. I mean I dont want it to be associated with any display, then it would be data controlled (I mean setting all the video buffer to 0s). I want to stop the display adapter from rendering anything on the screen. -Jinu On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:37:33 +0100, Erik Mouw <J.A.K.Mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 03:53:43PM +0530, Jinu Joy wrote: > > Is there some way to blank the screen from the user space using a > > ioctl or something equivalent? > > setterm -blank [0-60] . See "man setterm". > > Erik > > -- > Erik Mouw > J.A.K.Mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
