Re: Putting computer on standby or sleep

2001-02-20 Thread Krzys Majewski
I use a combination of 'hdparm -y' and 'apm --suspend', run via a script that sits in the background checking if the cpu is idle and there has been no typing on the console recently. Details on request. -chris Enrico Zini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I would like to know if (and

Re: Putting computer on standby or sleep

2001-02-19 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Tyler Braun wrote: I think xset dpms is what you're looking for. Do man xset for the full story, but if I do: xset dpms 0 0 3600 This will only turn off the monitor (a substantial saving by itself), but won't power down additional hardware such as hard drives. You can spin down

Putting computer on standby or sleep

2001-02-16 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello, I would like to know if (and how) I can make my computer suspend so that all (most of) is powered down but I can resume it and have it in the same state it had before the suspend. Something like portables do, but with a workstation. The system is a dual PII-450 on a Supermicro P6DGU

Re: Putting computer on standby or sleep

2001-02-16 Thread Tyler Braun
I think xset dpms is what you're looking for. Do man xset for the full story, but if I do: xset dpms 0 0 3600 then my monitor powers down after an hour. The first two settings are for going into a suspend state, where the monitor blanks out but doesn't actually shut off. Setting them to