Re: [expert] Saving monitor power
On Monday 09 Jun 2003 4:08 pm, charlie wrote: On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 02:31 pm, charlie sent this :- And that is where? Look at man mount and there is another reference to UTF8 there also. It doesn't appear to be anything but a benign thing? Quoting from last Thursday: I had similar problems here. My box does both English (me) and Korean (wife). I had to remove the references to UTF-8 in /etc/sysconfig/i18n So something that looked like LC_TELEPHONE=en_US-UTF-8 becomes LC_TELEPHONE=en_US and then continue on down the line. Try this and see if it helps.. did for me. James Does that help? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Saving monitor power
On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 05:11 pm, Russell W. Behne sent this :- It can be done in the kernel certainly. In the language support section. And that is where? You will have to go into your kernel:- My kernel is situated in my home directory, cd /home/charlie/kernel/linux- Knowing that I have kept the configuration of my kernel build, check if you have kept such a copy. I am uncertain if Mandrake keeps one by default. I then $make mrproper $make xconfig in the main menu :- select load configuration from file Then open up the language support Check that you have enabled at the top :- NLS Option iso8859-1 Read in help :- Default NLS Option iso8859-1 CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT: The default NLS used when mounting file system. Note, that this is the NLS used by your console, not the NLS used by a specific file system (if different) to store data (filenames) on a disk. Currently, the valid values are: big5, cp437, cp737, cp775, cp850, cp852, cp855, cp857, cp860, cp861, cp862, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp866, cp869, cp874, cp932, cp936, cp949, cp950, cp1250, cp1251, cp1255, euc-jp, euc-kr, gb2312, iso8859-1, iso8859-2, iso8859-3, iso8859-4, iso8859-5, iso8859-6, iso8859-7, iso8859-8, iso8859-9, iso8859-13, iso8859-14, iso8859-15, koi8-r, koi8-ru, koi8-u, sjis, tis-620, utf8. If you specify a wrong value, it will use the built-in NLS; compatible with iso8859-1. If unsure, specify it as iso8859-1. Then remove the UTF-8 support, $make dep $make clean, $make bzImage $make modules Then su into root and return to the directory above and #make modules_install #cp System.map /boot/System.map- #cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage- You might be asked if you wish to overwrite these and say yes if you haven't already removed them from /boot first. still as root #lilo reboot Watch the messages to make certain everything is as it should be. Because you have only altered this one thing in the kernel all should be well. HTH Charlie -- Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am master of my fate and captain of my soul. Ashley Brillaint This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.0, Kmail v1.4.3 and OpenOffice.org1.0.3 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Saving monitor power
On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 08:01 am, Russell W. Behne sent this :- When asked during the install what keyboard to use I selected U.S./international as I always do. (I do this so that I can easily type European characters like the German umlaut and esset characters.) I have installed the US International keyboard and it threw up wrong characters in Mandrake 9.0 So just use US keyboard. But if you want to try another keyboard configuration to see if that will change anything, go onto the Big K on the panel, then Configuration, then Mandrake Control Centre, then hardware and you can change your keyboard there and see if that makes any change. There is even a German keyboard layout there, with or without Dead keys. That might help also. I am uncertain if it was Mandrake, but there was an option to use dead keys even on the US keyboard in an install. But I never tried it. HTH Charlie. -- Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am master of my fate and captain of my soul. Ashley Brillaint This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.0, Kmail v1.4.3 and OpenOffice.org1.0.3 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Saving monitor power
On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 02:31 pm, charlie sent this :- It can be done in the kernel certainly. In the language support section. And that is where? You will have to go into your kernel:- Please note, never having used this, and unsure what might might happen. In Mandrake there is a Kernel Configurator. It is possible to disable certain things, and I assume [which might make an ass of me] that in this case it might mean, not actually remove anything, but just stop them working. In that area, if you have NLS UTF8 as a module, which is the way it is compiled by default it might be possible to stop it working? Big K/Configuration/Control Centre/System/Kernel Configurator/File Systems/Native Language Support. Best to read what it says by clicking on the line and then click the gear to disable it. Save your changes. But please be warned again, I only found this by mistake this morning, on a public holiday here in Oz and I do not know what it actually does. Click on help, and it may throw more light on the situation. Being KDE I imagine that it would work well. Charlie. -- Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am master of my fate and captain of my soul. Ashley Brillaint This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.0, Kmail v1.4.3 and OpenOffice.org1.0.3 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Saving monitor power
On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 02:31 pm, charlie sent this :- And that is where? Look at man mount and there is another reference to UTF8 there also. It doesn't appear to be anything but a benign thing? -- Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am master of my fate and captain of my soul. Ashley Brillaint This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.0, Kmail v1.4.3 and OpenOffice.org1.0.3 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Saving monitor power
Hi List! I have some nodes running MDK 8.0/8.1 without X but with monitors (just terminals). I would like to know, if possible, how to set them to switch off monitors (saving power) after a while of inactivity. TIA Cheers, -- --- Alan Wilter S. da Silva --- Laboratório de Física Biológica Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Saving monitor power
On Thursday 05 Jun 2003 5:31 pm, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi List! I have some nodes running MDK 8.0/8.1 without X but with monitors (just terminals). I would like to know, if possible, how to set them to switch off monitors (saving power) after a while of inactivity. TIA Cheers, It's a while since I had 8.x, so I can't give you specifics. However, I do remember that somewhere on the menu I found an entry for power control (can't remember exactly what it was called). I used x, but had the monitor blanking (as does this under 9.0) just as you describe. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Saving monitor power
Possibly you can change some bios-settings to do this... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Saving monitor power
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ken Thompson wrote: On Thursday 05 June 2003 11:28 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 05 Jun 2003 5:31 pm, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi List! I have some nodes running MDK 8.0/8.1 without X but with monitors (just terminals). I would like to know, if possible, how to set them to switch off monitors (saving power) after a while of inactivity. TIA Cheers, It's a while since I had 8.x, so I can't give you specifics. However, I do remember that somewhere on the menu I found an entry for power control (can't remember exactly what it was called). I used x, but had the monitor blanking (as does this under 9.0) just as you describe. Anne I believe it's in Kcontrol under Energy I think It's Power Control in9.0.. Might be just a bit different in 8.x but you can also go to he XFree86Config-4 and either uncomment the Option 'DPMS' or add it as needed. Hope I'm right G my memory of 8.x is a bit rusty. This is correct but only applies if you are running X, which he isn't. The setterm command will work as far as blanking the screen but I doubt if it will power down the monitor. - -- KevinO Hickory Dickory Dock, The mice ran up the clock, The clock struck one, The others escaped with minor injuries. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+4EKMjBS1mMJB+bQRAijRAKCLXibUsy1pi7ajg/QhMRIoxfwoUACeLagF EZ8SEZv1zCbVNU/bjWOTWNE= =zFyD -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Saving monitor power
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 05:43 pm, Russell W. Behne sent this :- Somehow my display got set for the UTF-8 character set. I want to change the setup to use the iso-8859-1 character set. How do I do this? It can be done in the kernel certainly. In the language support section. -- Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture. Aldous Huxley This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.0, Kmail v1.4.3 and OpenOffice.org1.0.3 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Saving monitor power
Thanks people, I'll give it a shot. On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, KevinO wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ken Thompson wrote: On Thursday 05 June 2003 11:28 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 05 Jun 2003 5:31 pm, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi List! I have some nodes running MDK 8.0/8.1 without X but with monitors (just terminals). I would like to know, if possible, how to set them to switch off monitors (saving power) after a while of inactivity. TIA Cheers, It's a while since I had 8.x, so I can't give you specifics. However, I do remember that somewhere on the menu I found an entry for power control (can't remember exactly what it was called). I used x, but had the monitor blanking (as does this under 9.0) just as you describe. Anne I believe it's in Kcontrol under Energy I think It's Power Control in9.0.. Might be just a bit different in 8.x but you can also go to he XFree86Config-4 and either uncomment the Option 'DPMS' or add it as needed. Hope I'm right G my memory of 8.x is a bit rusty. This is correct but only applies if you are running X, which he isn't. The setterm command will work as far as blanking the screen but I doubt if it will power down the monitor. - -- KevinO Hickory Dickory Dock, The mice ran up the clock, The clock struck one, The others escaped with minor injuries. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+4EKMjBS1mMJB+bQRAijRAKCLXibUsy1pi7ajg/QhMRIoxfwoUACeLagF EZ8SEZv1zCbVNU/bjWOTWNE= =zFyD -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- --- Alan Wilter S. da Silva --- Laboratório de Física Biológica Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho Universidade do Brasil/UFRJ Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Saving monitor power
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 13:31:13 -0300 (BRT) Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List! I have some nodes running MDK 8.0/8.1 without X but with monitors (just terminals). I would like to know, if possible, how to set them to switch off monitors (saving power) after a while of inactivity. Try: setterm -blank 10 to blank the screen after 10 min. of inactivity. Change the 10 to anything between 1-60 min. See: man setterm for the details. You can add the command to the end of your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file. Tom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Saving monitor power
On Thursday 05 June 2003 11:28 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 05 Jun 2003 5:31 pm, Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi List! I have some nodes running MDK 8.0/8.1 without X but with monitors (just terminals). I would like to know, if possible, how to set them to switch off monitors (saving power) after a while of inactivity. TIA Cheers, It's a while since I had 8.x, so I can't give you specifics. However, I do remember that somewhere on the menu I found an entry for power control (can't remember exactly what it was called). I used x, but had the monitor blanking (as does this under 9.0) just as you describe. Anne I believe it's in Kcontrol under Energy I think It's Power Control in9.0.. Might be just a bit different in 8.x but you can also go to he XFree86Config-4 and either uncomment the Option 'DPMS' or add it as needed. Hope I'm right G my memory of 8.x is a bit rusty. -- Ken Thompson WA7SYR Payette, Idaho Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux- Coming Soon To A Desktop Near You Registered Linux User #183936 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
