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Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 10:11:38 -0500
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To: Ryan@FreeBSD.ORG, Adam <adam@totaloverload.com>
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Subject: Re: Suspending the monitor
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In the last episode (Aug 14), Ryan@FreeBSD.ORG said:
> Hello, I have enabled apm in my bios on my wks, what I would like to
> do is suspend the monitor on the machine after a timed amount of no
> activity.  I would only like to suspend the monitor and keep the HDs
> and the cpus running at full power.
> 
> Do i need to use APM for shutting down the monitor ?  How would I do
> this with apm or any of the other config files?

Monitors aren't controlled by APM;  all you need to do is load the
green screen saver in rc.conf:

blanktime="1800"	# blank time (in seconds) or "NO" to turn it off.
saver="green"		# screen saver: blank/daemon/green/snake/star/NO.

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	Dan Nelson
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