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

[Damir Perisa]

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

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