Re: xset +dpms is not controlling monitor powerdown on raspberry pi 3b

2017-01-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 09 January 2017 10:52:46 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 09/01/17 15:00, Alan Corey wrote: > >>> 1860NX). So even if ones budget doesn't run to an HDMI monitor or > >>> TV, there's a fair number of these on eBay. > > > > The best deal on a cheap HDMI monitor I've been able to find is > > a

Re: xset +dpms is not controlling monitor powerdown on raspberry pi 3b

2017-01-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 09 January 2017 09:47:33 Alan Corey wrote: > >> 1860NX). So even if ones budget doesn't run to an HDMI monitor or > >> TV, there's a fair number of these on eBay. > > The best deal on a cheap HDMI monitor I've been able to find is > actually a TV. It has HDMI, VGA, RCA type analog video

Re: xset +dpms is not controlling monitor powerdown on raspberry pi 3b

2017-01-09 Thread Alan Corey
This is getting a tad off-topic, not that I care particularly. I was doing some Googling and ran across https://forum.linuxcnc.org/ which might have something appropriate. I'd never heard of it. http://www.surpluscenter.com/ was what I was Googling for, also Herbach and Rademan, https://www.scip

Re: xset +dpms is not controlling monitor powerdown on raspberry pi 3b

2017-01-09 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 09/01/17 15:00, Alan Corey wrote: 1860NX). So even if ones budget doesn't run to an HDMI monitor or TV, there's a fair number of these on eBay. The best deal on a cheap HDMI monitor I've been able to find is actually a TV. It has HDMI, VGA, RCA type analog video inputs. It has a DVD drive

Re: xset +dpms is not controlling monitor powerdown on raspberry pi 3b

2017-01-09 Thread Alan Corey
>> 1860NX). So even if ones budget doesn't run to an HDMI monitor or TV, >> there's a fair number of these on eBay. The best deal on a cheap HDMI monitor I've been able to find is actually a TV. It has HDMI, VGA, RCA type analog video inputs. It has a DVD drive tucked in behind the screen, you c

Re: xset +dpms is not controlling monitor powerdown on raspberry pi 3b

2017-01-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 09 January 2017 06:11:46 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 08/01/17 18:00, Alan Corey wrote: > > No luck with that here either, it would be very handy to have. But > > then I'm using an HDMI->VGA adapter and my monitor is ancient. I > > think the standard was that when horizontal and verti

Re: xset +dpms is not controlling monitor powerdown on raspberry pi 3b

2017-01-09 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 08/01/17 18:00, Alan Corey wrote: No luck with that here either, it would be very handy to have. But then I'm using an HDMI->VGA adapter and my monitor is ancient. I think the standard was that when horizontal and vertical sync pulses both go away the monitor's supposed to immediately switch