This might be wildly off the mark, but is there something VESA related to do this, VGA monitors, et al?
I prepare to stand flamed. ^.^ On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Bakul Shah <ba...@bitblocks.com> wrote: > On Thu, 15 May 2014 22:04:34 BST "Steve Simon" <st...@quintile.net> wrote: > > Its just wonderful to have a raspberry pi as a plan9 terminal, > > but the energy saving of the pi is outweighed by the monitor I use. > > > > The Pi's display code blanks the screen after a while but this does > > not shutdown the monitor. > > > > I dug a little and it seems I need to send CEC (Consumer Electronics > Control) > > messages over HDMI - Via a Pi GPU entrypoint. > > > > > > Porting libcec looks a little painful especially as I only need to be > able > > to send two messages (turn on and turn off). > > > > Anyone know anything about this stuff? is CEC what I need or is there > some > > other (simpler) way? > > May be use a gpio pin to control a switch?! > >
