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New MessageAuto-dim (modified 0 times) RudMan
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Is there anyway to prevent the auto-dim feature of the monitor? Where the screen goes blank, but the backlight stays on?

I'm running Jailbait 6 and I do not want the screen to blank AT ALL.

I've disabled all the power management features in the bios, is there a setting possibly I've missed?

Bob

08-08-2000 10:33:07

New MessageRE:Auto-dim (modified 0 times) jasper9890
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yea ive been wondering this one too.. what about standby mode ? im running win98 (for the time being) and cant seem to get it to go into standby.. any ideas?
08-08-2000 13:52:11

New MessageRE:Auto-dim (modified 0 times) idxman
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I'm trying the same myself and so far (in linux) it works if I manually put it in stand-by mode. (apm -S) Here's a thread :

http://www.linux-hacker.net/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowPost&Board=technical&Post=771&Idle=0&Sort=0&Order=Descend&Page=0

One item that might help is setting the BIOS to DPMS instead of VSYNC -- or whatever the other options are. Hopefully this topic isn't too old, but I'll let you know what I find out.

-r

11-27-2000 16:32:54

New MessageRE:Auto-dim (modified 0 times) idxman
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Hm,. [re-read post]. I see you didn't want any dim features at all. I suppose my brain was on auto-dim for a moment..

-r

11-27-2000 18:29:02

New MessageRE:Auto-dim (modified 0 times) YouBecha
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I can't speak for linux...but win98 does go into standby just nicely, and the screen turns off. (fan stays on)

Make sure you have the latest drivers...I don't have them handy but they are listed on this board.

http://www.geocities.com/mr_bubba_zanetti/
11-28-2000 07:25:28

New MessageRE:Auto-dim (modified 0 times) idxman
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I think the problem is with my stupid HDD. There's something wrong with it so it "clicks" every "X" seconds. The system will automatically go into standby (backlight off - fan on), but then pops back on when the HDD click happends..

grr...

-r

11-28-2000 14:45:19

New MessageRE:Auto-dim (modified 0 times) RudMan
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To finally respond to myself:

what you need to do is run setterm -blank 0 in order to keep the console from blanking and xset s 0 to keep X from blanking.

How I did it, is in the user I wanted this to happen, I also wanted to boot into X right away. My user was root so in the /root dir, I put a .bash_profile which did a setterm -blank 0 and then a /root/startx

I had previously done a cp /usr/X11R6/bin/startx /root/startx

and then added right before the blackbox line (in the xclients section) a xset s 0 &


Bob

06-24-2001 21:11:38

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