On Dec 17, 2007 1:18 AM, Damir Perisa <damir.perisa@solnet.ch> wrote:
Monday 17 December 2007, Aaron Griffin wrote: | 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?
from the logic, they should not be exclusive.
i have just replaced the one from blanking by
setterm -powerdown 5
on my machine, because i do not see any reason to make a screen work and show black instead of shut down and use less power (on a laptop anyway). your guess that they are exclusive to each other may be right. i will add back the blanking one and see what happens.
I tried different combinations over the past few days. I'd claim a hardware issue here - both of these machines have nvidia cards. Maybe I'll try with the nvidia fb module? Damir, what video hardware do you have?