Ethan Benson: > 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 :/
Just for the record (hm a traceroute to ppclinux.apple.com stops within apple.com), setterm on the discussed system does not work, it just blacks. > > 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. I'd be satisfied if there'd be a way to just not give it the power at startup. Now assume there is the further complication of physically not being able for the 4-finger-salute. Any hints? ralf -- http://me.in-berlin.de/~rws/
