From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 19 17:46:36 2005 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 EF8BF16A4CE for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:46:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7057443D5F for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:46:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:48:03 -0500 Message-ID: <426543EE.3070005@daleco.biz> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:46:22 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ivan Voras References: <426428C0.5000205@fer.hr> <44hdi2zxfm.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <4265371D.3030501@fer.hr> In-Reply-To: <4265371D.3030501@fer.hr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Apr 2005 17:48:03.0687 (UTC) FILETIME=[EF9A1F70:01C54507] cc: Lowell Gilbert Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] Turn off 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: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:46:37 -0000 Ivan Voras wrote: > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > >> >> On the (syscons(4)) console, you can enable screen blanking as a >> screensaver in its own right. You would load either the "green" or >> "apm" screen saver (available as kernel modules) and enable it with >> vidcontrol(1). I don't think you can trigger it by hand. > > > I tried both (before posting the question) - green_saver just blanks > the screen > (doesn't turn it off), and apm_server misbehaves - just 'freezes' the > screen without > any other effect. I know turning it off works because, well, it works > ok in Windows... > >> >> Under X, of course, doing what you want it easy. > > > Turn the monitor off? How? Hmm, from XF86Config(5): Options Some Option flags that may be useful to include in Monitor sec- tions (when needed) include "DPMS", and "SyncOnGreen". Now, I have: Option "DPMS" in /etc/X11/XF86Config, and my monitor does what I call "sleeping" after a period of inactivity, but I can't say how this really coincides with the current discussion, as I'm jumping in mid-stream and can't even seem to find Lowell's reply to you anywhere (other than what you quoted). Hmm, what about acpi(4) ? HTH, Kevin Kinsey