From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 30 16:26:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64E0537B405 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 16:26:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05B58BD1F; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 16:26:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA23476; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 16:26:09 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f9V0Ons51670; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 16:24:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Matthew Graybosch Cc: "Steve Brown " , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Power Management References: <20011029195247.157542ff.matthew@starbreaker.net> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 30 Oct 2001 16:24:48 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20011029195247.157542ff.matthew@starbreaker.net> Message-ID: Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Graybosch writes: > Steve, many desktop machines come with APM as well. I'm not sure if > FreeBSD has an APM daemon like Linux does, but I've noticed that > even without an APM daemon, my KDS monitor shuts itself off after > half an hour of inactivity. That's probably a monitor/DPMS (supported by X) thing instead of a motherboard/powersupply/disk(?)/APM thing. (See the xset man page.) Maybe APM does monitor/DPMS stuff too, I don't know, but APM is not required for your monitor to be shut off. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message