From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 12 07:45:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AF0616A4CF for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 07:45:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from radicalv.com (secure.radicalv.com [216.118.91.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 99F1543D39 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 07:45:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ecrist@adtechintegrated.com) Received: (qmail 30926 invoked from network); 12 Feb 2004 15:45:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.invalid) (63.228.14.245) by mail.radicalv.com with SMTP; 12 Feb 2004 15:45:19 -0000 From: Eric F Crist Organization: AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 09:45:04 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <200402122343.32045.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <200402122343.32045.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_O+5KA+Qtx/fK3Ri"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200402120945.19003.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> Subject: Re: Standby mode for monitor. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: ecrist@adtechintegrated.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 15:45:24 -0000 --Boundary-02=_O+5KA+Qtx/fK3Ri Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 12 February 2004 07:13 am, Malcolm Kay wrote: > I'd like to be able to switch the monitors on a number of > our computers into standby mode from a software program > running on a virtual console; and wakeup either when a key is > pressed or when the program has new information to display. > > I can probably manage to control blank screen savers but I > would prefer to power down the displays to standby modes. > > The machines are those small size 'kitchen computer' VIA > based cubes (almost). The monitors are LCD displays. > > Are there ioctls to help with this? > How do I go about it? Malcolm, =46WIW, there's an option called DPMS in your XF86Config file under the mon= itors=20 section. I know you have to have a fairly recent version of X for this. =20 HTH =2D-=20 Eric F Crist AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (612) 998-3588 --Boundary-02=_O+5KA+Qtx/fK3Ri Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBAK5+OzdyDbTMRQIYRAqsiAJsFYsxS9WAQUTPqoPw7C1suxT111wCfYcPB BcaeKrlWqNSG2ElLH3iSt4g= =HJM3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_O+5KA+Qtx/fK3Ri--