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From: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
To: herbert@13thfloor.at
Cc: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Turning off automatic screen clanking
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:55:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F297429.1010302@techsource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030731162037.GB32759@www.13thfloor.at



Herbert Pötzl wrote:

>>Why don't we borrow a trick from my old Atari 8-bit computer.  Instead 
>>of blanking, cycle the colors.  Best of both worlds:  You save your 
>>monitor AND you get to see what's on the screen.
> 
> 
> hmm, ignoring the issue that modern monitors will not
> suffer the burnin, how would it help to cycle the colors?
> the only valid solution would be inverting the image on
> a regular basis, and I don't think that this would be
> appreciated ...
> 


So, if there's no point to having screen-blanking, why is it in there to 
begin with?  To protect OLD monitors from burnin?

Is screen-blanking there just to make people feel better who think they 
need screen-blanking?  As I understand, it doesn't do any 
power-management stuff anyhow.

What's the deal?



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-07-31 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-28 20:00 Turning off automatic screen clanking Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-28 20:01 ` Ben Collins
2003-07-28 20:08 ` Frank v Waveren
2003-07-28 20:25   ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-28 20:45     ` Charles Lepple
2003-07-29 11:06       ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-29 16:51         ` James Simmons
2003-07-29 17:01           ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-29 17:54           ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-29 18:31             ` Alan Cox
2003-07-30  0:17             ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-07-30  1:25               ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-30  1:37                 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-07-30  7:14                   ` Alex Riesen
2003-07-30  8:00                     ` David Lang
2003-07-31 14:33                   ` Timothy Miller
2003-07-31 14:57                     ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-07-31 15:20                       ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-31 21:41                         ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-08-01 15:25                           ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-01 17:11                             ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-07-30  1:40                 ` Petr Vandrovec
2003-07-30  2:35                   ` Petr Vandrovec
2003-07-30  5:22               ` Ville Herva
2003-07-30  5:44                 ` Gene Heskett
2003-07-31 14:36                 ` Timothy Miller
2003-07-31 16:20                   ` Herbert Pötzl
2003-07-31 16:56                     ` Mike Dresser
2003-07-31 19:55                     ` Timothy Miller [this message]
2003-07-31 23:35                       ` Ian Hastie
2003-07-30  6:03               ` jw schultz
2003-07-30  2:16             ` Miles Bader
2003-07-30  5:45               ` jw schultz
2003-07-28 20:19 ` Samuel Thibault
2003-07-28 20:27 ` Andries Brouwer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-29 13:02 Andries.Brouwer
2003-07-29 13:53 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-29 13:56 Andries.Brouwer
2003-07-30  6:14 Erik Andersen
2003-07-30 13:07 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-31 19:15   ` Norberto BENSA
2003-07-31 21:50     ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-07-31 20:08 Petr Vandrovec
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     [not found]           ` <frB6.8gE.7@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-08-03 10:40             ` Julien Oster
2003-08-04  0:56               ` Ian Hastie
2003-08-05 18:52               ` Timothy Miller

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