On 4 May 2001 12:55:15 -0700, Steve Gran said:

>  I have a question about getting the monitor to properly powerdown when idle. 
>  Right now the box shuts off the display, but the monitor still has a 
> backlight on, and the light is green, indicating it's still getting feed from 
> the video card.  What I would lie to do is have the monitor completely go 
> black when idle, as I think that if I keep running it as is, I'm going to end 
> up prematurely frying the poor thing.  I'm running Woody on a 2.4.2 kernel, 
> and I have APM enabled in the kernel.  It's a Viewsonic monitor that has the 
> usual array of power saving features, and a Rage 128 video card.  I assume I 
> have to add a line to lilo.conf, but I'm not sure that this is the best way, 
> or the syntax for doing so.

Works for me fine with these settings:
- I had to add append="apm=on" to lilo.conf
- I added the following lines in the SeverFlags-Section of my XF86Config:
        Option          "BlankTime"  "<minutes>"
        Option          "StandbyTime"  "<minutes>"
        Option          "SuspendTime"  "<minutes>"
        Option          "OffTime"  "<minutes>"

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