Re: [arch-dev-public] Non-X monitor shutdown?

On Dec 15, 2007 3:25 PM, Jeff Mickey <jeff@archlinux.org> wrote:

These commands are all working fine for me. I haven't tried the setterm stuff, but xset is working here fine on my laptop.

As I said. Doing this in X has never been a problem for me. It is when I am _not_ in X that the monitor does not blank. The commands run fine, but nothing happens. Damir, do you have the 'blank' line (or rather, are you only using the one from /etc/rc.sysinit)? One of the things I wondered about recently is whether these two commands are somehow mutually exclusive - if maybe the screen will not 'powerdown' if it is already 'blank'ed? Do you know anything regarding that?