You have to compile it into the kernel and the monitor one does really shut your monitor off, just blanks out the screen. enable Advanced Power Management BIOS Support then enable Power Shut Off === john bitar cruel@rocketmail.com ---Urs Marti <ubmarti@stud.ee.ethz.ch> wrote:

On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Steven T. Hatton wrote:

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I have been wondering for weeks whether S.u.S.E.

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energy saving features like a feature to shutdown

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in use. I know that the monitor shuts down if I leave the system set without input at the Linux command prompt. It doesn't do this while running the KDE. I really wanted to read up on

or Linux in general has the monitor when not this before I asked this

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list, but I haven't found anything jumping out at me. Perhaps this is something that is handled by firmware below the OS level. Any thoughts?

Steve

Hmmmm.... I guess it must be a problem with KDE. I am running fvwm2 and there the energy saving features work fine. Even on my not very recent mainboard...

Urs

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