On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 04:34:05PM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans
wrote:
> On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:55:15PM -0700, Steve Gran wrote:
> > I have a question about getting the monitor to properly
> > powerdown when idle. Right now the box shuts off the
> > display, but the monitor still has a backlight on, and the
> > light is green, indicating it's still getting feed from the
> > video card. What I would lie to do is have the monitor
> > completely go black when idle, as I think that if I keep
> > running it as is, I'm going to end up prematurely frying the
> > poor thing. I'm running Woody on a 2.4.2 kernel, and I have
> > APM enabled in the kernel. It's a Viewsonic monitor that has
> > the usual array of power saving features, and a Rage 128
> > video card. I assume I have to add a line to lilo.conf, but
> > I'm not sure that this is the best way, or the syntax for
> > doing so.
>
> You don't need to touch LILO. You've got several options for
> doing it. Run 'man XF86Config' and search for 'DPMS'. Or run
> 'man xset' and search for 'dpms'. Or use xscreensaver and
> configure it to control DPMS.
>
> And please, please, please, wrap your lines at something like
> 72 columns. Your whole message was one giant line, which made
> trimming it for the reply a complete pain (that's why I didn't
> do it!).
if you use vim, you can
gqip
to reformat the whole quoted missive, with leading quotes and
paragraphs and all that rot. very very very nice.
see above for example.
--
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #18 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
:
How do you DISABLE A NETWORK SERVICE? There are several ways
network services are made available: for inetd items, modify
/etc/inetd.conf and then "/etc/init.d/inetd restart". For
independently-running daemons, try "/etc/init.d/<daemon> stop"
(or to permanently zap them, "apt-get --purge remove <daemon>").
Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
