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|> Hello,
|>
|> Does Linux / XFree86 support the VESA DPMS specification?
|>
|> Hardware-HOWTO has a place-holder for this subject but the section
|> does not contain any information so far.
|>
|> From my understanding, DPMS-compliant monitors go into energy saving
|> mode based on whether the Horizontal/Vertical sync signals are turned
|> off. Since the video controller chip cannot really figure out if there
|> is any user activity on the system console, there has to be some sort
|> of driver software that sits at the higher level (driver, O/S, X
|> server...) to tell the video chip when to turn off the H/V sync so the
|> monitor would go to sleep.
|>
|> Does this driver exist for Linux / XFree86?
|>
|> Thanks,
|> Chung
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|> | Chung Ng Tel: 310-524-6440 | AT&T Global Information Solutions |
|> | Fax: 310-524-5517 | Enterprise Solutions Division |
Yes. For the console you may use a newer version of setterm, which has an
option "-powersave on". In XFree 3.1 there is an option in the XF86Config
file that enables this feature (in XFree 3.1.1 it didn't work for my
video card: V7 Mirage P64, but in 3.1.2 it works great).
--Franz
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