Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Mar 1998 00:13:08 -0500 (EST) | From | "C. Scott Ananian" <> | Subject | Re: Laptop APM failure |
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On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Dave Wreski wrote:
> > 1) Display blanking: > > I believe this is an XFree bug. An upgrade to the latest version has > > been reported to fix this. > > Sorry, I should have mentioned that I don't even have X running on this > laptop. This is strictly a console problem (so far). [...] > Hmm. How can we explain the fact that it does work in winblows?
Perhaps windows is using VESA screen blanking instead of APM screen blanking?
A perusal of the linux code seemed to indicate that VESA blanking would be attempted if APM blanking failed, but perhaps I wasn't reading as carefully as I should have been? --Scott @ @ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-oOO-(_)-OOo-=-=-=-=-= C. Scott Ananian: cananian@lcs.mit.edu / Declare the Truth boldly and Laboratory for Computer Science/Crypto / without hindrance. Massachusetts Institute of Technology /META-PARRESIAS AKOLUTOS:Acts 28:31 -.-. .-.. .. ..-. ..-. --- .-. -.. ... -.-. --- - - .- -. .- -. .. .- -. PGP key available via finger and from http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~cananian
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