From: "John Fremlin" <vii@penguinpowered.com>
To: "Linux kernel" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: DPMS kicks in at the wrong time
Date: 15 Dec 2000 19:56:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2snnp791o.fsf@localhost.yi.org.> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200012130649.eBD6mcZ02368@emu.os2.ami.com.au>
In-Reply-To: John Summerfield's message of "Wed, 13 Dec 2000 14:48:47 +0800"
John Summerfield <summer@OS2.ami.com.au> writes:
[...]
> 3) When I then switch back to a virtual console, the screen blanks
> and switches to power-saving mode.
Which powersave mode? There are three, IIRC. You can tell them apart
by the color of or whether the light blinks on some monitors.
If the monitor is set to a modeline that it knows is crazy it might
turn itself off automatically instead of trying to display it. That
is, the framebuffer driver or XFree86 is probably not reseting some
values it should.
[...]
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