Re: Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 4570] New: vesafb, Console goes black after some time of inactivity, but does not put monitor in standby

["Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com>]

On Tuesday 03 May 2005 03:47, Bruno wrote:
> On Monday 02 May 2005 11:24, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Sun, 1 May 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > Begin forwarded message:
> > >
> > > Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 13:16:17 -0700
> > > From: bugme-daemon@osdl.org
> > > To: bugme-new@lists.osdl.org
> > > Subject: [Bugme-new] [Bug 4570] New: vesafb, Console goes black after
> > > some time of inactivity, but does not put monitor in standby
> > >
> > >
> > > http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4570
> > >
> > >            Summary: vesafb, Console goes black after some time of
> > >                     inactivity, but does not put monitor in standby
> > >     Kernel Version: 2.6.*
> > >             Status: NEW
> > >           Severity: normal
> > >              Owner: jsimmons@infradead.org
> > >          Submitter: bonbons67@internet.lu
> > >
> > >
> > > Distribution: Gentoo
> > > Hardware Environment:
> > >     Does not matter, all my computers have same problem
> > > Software Environment:
> > > Problem Description:
> > > After some time of inactivity the console goes black, but does not put
> > > monitor into standby mode (this works in X with driver for the card,
> > > have not tried with vesa driver in X)
> > > What I would expect is that the monitor is put in stand-by when the
> > > console goes blank. (Tweaking with fbset does not help)
> > >
> > > Steps to reproduce:
> > > Work on linux console (not under X ;-)), then keep away from
> > > keyboard/mouse for some time.
> >
> > man setterm(1).
> >
> > Does it work if you don't use vesafb, but the plain VGA text console?
> >
> > Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> >
> > 						Geert
> >
> > --
> > Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 --
> > geert@linux-m68k.org
> >
> > In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker.
> > But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something
> > like that. -- Linus Torvalds
>
> I tried out vga framebuffer (booting with vga=normal boot parameter), but
> there I still only get blanking instead of standby.
> With setterm it tried the various "powersave" options (vsync, hsync,
> powerdown), but none is working.
>

Yes, I know that the powersave options are not working for a long time now
and I don't know why.

Unfortunately setterm -blank puts the console in VESA_BLANK_NORMAL
only which is defined as blank the screen but keep monitor sync signals on.

Tony




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