On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 05:13:40PM -0800, Mark Vojkovich wrote: > > my second question is, after a while of inactivity, my > > monitor goes to sleep. But, if I am playing a video > > with 'mplayer', it doesn't go to sleep. > > Mplayer deliberately does that. It disables power management > so that it doesn't come on when you're playing movies. And, amusingly enough, on one of my two laptops, both running almost exactly cloned installs of Rh73, it gets it wrong: the panel blacks out after 30 seconds anyway. That's my Armada 4220, I think that's the BIOS screenblanker setting; it might not be able to override it. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@xxxxxxxxxxx Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 Come see Linux Gazette in our new home: www.linuxgazette.net! _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
