No, I did not mean the G3 Flower Power... sorry for any confusion. I *do*have the G4 "Flowerpot" with the screen on an arm. The energy saver functions don't blank my screen; rather, it puts an yellow-orange row and column on the screen.
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Clark Martin <cm...@sonic.net> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 23:59 +0200, José JORGE wrote: > > A Wednesday 12 August 2009 20:45:38, Bryan Moore escreveu: > > > Is there anyway to completely turn-off the screen on my iMac g4 > FlowerPot > > > running Debian Testing? I've already tried the "xset dpms force off" > method > > > to no avail (thanks to bor_ed on the irc channel). > > > > I suppose it is a model with no fan on the CPU, so it uses the heat of > the > > monitor to recycle air around the CPU. So, you cannot turn off the screen > of > > the G4 iMACs without suspending to RAM (can it?) the Debian system (this > is > > what MacOS 9 does on my system). > > Wrong iMac. The G4 iMacs have the LCD screen on a swing arm. Unless > the OP meant a G3 Flower Power. The G3 iMacs do turn off the screen. > AFAIK this powers off the CRT as in other modern CRT monitors. Normally > this is done by the Energy saver software, I don't know how it could be > done by other means. > > -- > Clark Martin > Redwood City, CA > > "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > >
