Friday 14 December 2007, Aaron Griffin wrote: | I've had the following in my /etc/rc.local for a while: | setterm -blank 10 | setterm -powersave powerdown | setterm -powerdown 15 | | Now what this does is put the monitor into the | black-but-still-glowing mode after 10 minutes, then shut it off | after 15. | | I have no idea when, why, or how, but it stopped working. | I use this on 2 machines that don't run X, so using 'xset' is not | an option, but I *think* xset works fine. i'm using only setterm -powerdown 5 and it works fine (x86_64). maybe it depends on the hardware? i will see if it still works on i686 and report back. maybe its arch specific break. - D -- .·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´ ° ° ° ° ° ° ><((((º> ° ° ° ° ° <º)))>< <º)))><