On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 09:21:26AM -0800, Matt Brubeck wrote: > On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > the monitor should already go into powersaving on its own when in the > > console (does anynone know how to control that?), for X you need to > > either use xset to enable dpms or enable it in /etc/X11/XF86Config > > Unfortunately, the monitors in slot-loading iMacs will not do standard > VESA blanking / DPMS. Even in MacOS, they only turn black (not off) when > monitor sleep is enabled.
your kidding! i thought all monitors made in semi recent times were capable of powersaving. i guess the iMac is not so modern after all :/ > In MacOS, the monitor does turn off when the computer is put to sleep. > There's no way to do this in Linux currently (the PowerBook pmu code > doesn't support sleep on iMacs). it probably just cuts power entirely to the monitor tube itself, rather a kludge but... putting the entire machine to sleep is not as advantagous as just putting the monitor to sleep as full sleep will screw up cron, remote logins etc etc. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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