On Friday, January 19, 2007 @ 11:22 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2007/01/20 10:44 (GMT+0800) Joe Morris (NTM) apparently typed:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Why you would like to have your display displaying a screen saver that nobody is looking at, is something I can't understand.
I totally agree here. DPMS is much better than a screensaver, saves power, extends monitor life, no multitasking or cpu usage issues, etc. Linux does have some awesome screensavers, but it is wasted on me.
I have several displays, all made by Sony, but some branded Dell, that have unacceptably long warmup times coming out of sleep mode.
Same here. That's why I let the screensaver keep the monitor active for me. I have never used DPMS and know very little about it. Would it have basically the same effect (keep my monitor from going to sleep) while showing just a blank screen? Is that how it would work. If so, I guess that would be acceptable, as far a being able to instantly walk back in the room sit down at the computer and have immediate access, but I sort of like having something showing on the screen. If DPMS causes the screen to be blank, you couldn't just look at the machine and know "ok, I didn't turn it off like I thought I had".
On some systems, POST completes and boot is well along before I can see what's going on. Having to wait as long do to some arbitrary period of inactivity isn't acceptable either. I suppose what I really need are some short monitor extension cables that have no continuity on the pins for DPMS and DDC, as SUSE is not the only OS causing this problem. -- "I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." John 10:10 NIV
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