Messages in this thread | | | From | Ian Hastie <> | Subject | Re: Turning off automatic screen clanking | Date | Fri, 1 Aug 2003 00:35:06 +0100 |
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On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 20:55, Timothy Miller wrote: > Herbert Pötzl wrote: > >>Why don't we borrow a trick from my old Atari 8-bit computer. Instead > >>of blanking, cycle the colors. Best of both worlds: You save your > >>monitor AND you get to see what's on the screen. > > > > hmm, ignoring the issue that modern monitors will not > > suffer the burnin, how would it help to cycle the colors? > > the only valid solution would be inverting the image on > > a regular basis, and I don't think that this would be > > appreciated ... > > So, if there's no point to having screen-blanking, why is it in there to > begin with? To protect OLD monitors from burnin? > > Is screen-blanking there just to make people feel better who think they > need screen-blanking? As I understand, it doesn't do any > power-management stuff anyhow.
You say that, and I certainly remember it saying just about the same thing in the kernel configuration help. However there is also this from the Debian init file /etc/init.d/console-screen.sh
# screensaver stuff setterm_args="" if [ "$BLANK_TIME" ]; then setterm_args="$setterm_args -blank $BLANK_TIME" fi if [ "$BLANK_DPMS" ]; then setterm_args="$setterm_args -powersave $BLANK_DPMS" fi if [ "$POWERDOWN_TIME" ]; then setterm_args="$setterm_args -powerdown $POWERDOWN_TIME" fi if [ "$setterm_args" ]; then setterm $setterm_args
I know for sure it worked with 2.4 and am fairly sure it still works with 2.6.0-test#.
-- Ian.
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