Subject: Re: Screen Blanker
From: Takashi Oe (toe@unlserve.unl.edu)
Date: Fri Aug 03 2001 - 14:03:13 MDT
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Jeremy Parsons wrote:
> Im using a Power-mac 5400 that is an all-in-one unit and I am not using
> X at all. There is no seperate switch to turn the monitor off and the
> screen blanker is not working. How do I configure it to turn my display
> off after so many minutes?
Try "man setterm". However, valkyriefb frame buffer driver for 5400 seems
to be broken (probably intentionally) with respect to blanking... If you
like compiling kernels yourself, I can send you a patch for 2.4.x
kernels which should fix things for you.
Takashi Oe
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