From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 12 09:53:54 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 81B7616A4CE for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 09:53:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.198.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A4F443D1F for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 09:53:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from be-well.no-ip.com ([66.30.196.44]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2004021217535001300fk2dbe>; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:53:54 +0000 Received: by be-well.no-ip.com (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 16A8811; Thu, 12 Feb 2004 12:53:50 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200402122343.32045.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> <200402120945.19003.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 12 Feb 2004 12:53:49 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200402120945.19003.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> Message-ID: <44isicchg2.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Standby mode for monitor. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:53:54 -0000 Eric F Crist writes: > 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, > > FWIW, there's an option called DPMS in your XF86Config file under the monitors > section. I know you have to have a fairly recent version of X for this. It's been there a long time, actually. On the console, there's a "green" screensaver and an "apm" screensaver.