On Sun, 1 May 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:

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Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 13:16:17 -0700
From: bugme-daemon@osdl.org
To: bugme-new@lists.osdl.org
Subject: [Bugme-new] [Bug 4570] New: vesafb, Console goes black after some time of inactivity, but does not put monitor in standby


http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4570

           Summary: vesafb, Console goes black after some time of
                    inactivity, but does not put monitor in standby
    Kernel Version: 2.6.*
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
             Owner: jsimmons@infradead.org
         Submitter: bonbons67@internet.lu


Distribution: Gentoo 
Hardware Environment: 
    Does not matter, all my computers have same problem 
Software Environment: 
Problem Description: 
After some time of inactivity the console goes black, but does not put monitor   
into standby mode (this works in X with driver for the card, have not tried  
with vesa driver in X) 
What I would expect is that the monitor is put in stand-by when the console  
goes blank. (Tweaking with fbset does not help) 
 
Steps to reproduce: 
Work on linux console (not under X ;-)), then keep away from keyboard/mouse 
for some time.

man setterm(1).

Does it work if you don't use vesafb, but the plain VGA text console?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
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