Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alessandro Di Marco wrote: > Hi all, > > this is a new 2.6.20 module implementing a user inactivity trigger. Basically > it acts as an event sniffer, issuing an ACPI event when no user activity is > detected for more than a certain amount of time. This event can be successively > grabbed and managed by an user-level daemon such as acpid, blanking the screen, > dimming the lcd-panel light à la mac, etc...
Any idea how much power this saves? And for the vast rest of us who do run X, this seems to parallel the work of a well-tuned screensaver. This is just a notifier; to make it work as a screensaver you'll have to rely on some external programs. Personally I use smartdimmer to dim my vaio panel. Obviously you can keep your toaster flying, if you like, simply calling the flying-toaster module instead of smartdimmer. Anyway I would use the latter on battery. ;-) Best, -- "What made the deepest impression upon you?" inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, "when you stood in the presence of the Falls of Niagara, the greatest of natural wonders?" ---- "The thing that stuck me most forcibly when I saw the Falls," Lincoln responded with the characteristic deliberation, "was where in the world did all that water come from?" - Author Unknown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
