Re: Turning PC monitor on/off

["Markus Rechberger" <mrechberger@gmail.com>]

Hi,

first of all it might be useful how DPMS works,
http://webpages.charter.net/dperr/dpms.htm

Instead of using X you could try to use some kind of Vesa feature.
Maybe your bios has a revealed interface in Linux for that feature too

Markus

On 10/11/06, Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote:
> Raseel Bhagat wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > On 10/11/06, Henry Margies <henry.margies@gmx.de> wrote:
> >> Maybe it also helps to look at the sources of xset program  of X11.
> >>
> >> xset dpms force off
> >>
> >> Turns off the monitor (until you press a key or so).
> >
> > But what if I'm not on the X-window ?
> > As in, I'm running this program from console, or one of the virtual
> > terminals ?
>
> You said you wanted to look at the code and xset is probably a good
> example.  Whether it'll also work from the commandline with no active X
> system, that's for you to find out :-)
>
>
> /Per Jessen, Zurich
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Markus Rechberger