On Thu, Feb 19, 1998 at 10:11:43PM -0500, jonathan@aracnet.net wrote:

On 18-Feb-98 jonathan@aracnet.net wrote:

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I rebooted to Wingdings 95 to play a game, and after a brief absence, found out it had suspended the machine! It powered down the monitor, flashing the power light and everything!

Nothing wrong with that, but it doesn't happen in Linux. :( I have APM support compiled in, what else do I need to do?

Apologies; I spoke a >bit< too soon. I powered up to Linux the other day and got distracted again (yes, it happens often) and when I came back, the monitor was off (standby). Ah, HA; so the score stands as follows:

OS Power saving -------------- ------------- Wingdings95: Motherboard, Monitor, (Hard drive?) Linux console: Monitor Linux X: Nothing

(hmm... could it be cron keeping the drive and MB busy? Yup.)

What about the monitor in X? Is there something keeping it from relaxing?

Thanks for letting me talk to myself internationally... :)

My monitor at work will power down under X, but my monitor at home will not; although it used to. There is a option setting in the XF86Config that will turn on the power saving features of you monitor. I believe it is. . . Option "power_saver" Under the Device section. If this does not work then maybe something in your monitor blew up. That is what happened to mine :( -- Andrew L. Davis Network Operations adavis@vmarketing.com ViperLink International -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e