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From: "Herbert Pötzl" <herbert@13thfloor.at>
To: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
Cc: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Turning off automatic screen clanking
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 18:20:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030731162037.GB32759@www.13thfloor.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F29296E.6000602@techsource.com>

On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 10:36:30AM -0400, Timothy Miller wrote:
> 
> 
> Ville Herva wrote:
> >On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 08:17:15PM -0400, you [Zwane Mwaikambo] wrote:
> 
> >Most times when you need to have it fixed is when your box has mysteriously
> >locked up, and you'd wan't to know if there was a oops on the screen. No 
> >can
> >do - the console is already blanked. By then it is too late to fix it.
> >
> >In what cases is console blanking so hugely important these days, anyway?
> 
> 
> Why don't we borrow a trick from my old Atari 8-bit computer.  Instead 
> of blanking, cycle the colors.  Best of both worlds:  You save your 
> monitor AND you get to see what's on the screen.

hmm, ignoring the issue that modern monitors will not
suffer the burnin, how would it help to cycle the colors?
the only valid solution would be inverting the image on
a regular basis, and I don't think that this would be
appreciated ...

just my opinion,
Herbert

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-31 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-28 20:00 Turning off automatic screen clanking Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-28 20:01 ` Ben Collins
2003-07-28 20:08 ` Frank v Waveren
2003-07-28 20:25   ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-28 20:45     ` Charles Lepple
2003-07-29 11:06       ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-29 16:51         ` James Simmons
2003-07-29 17:01           ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-29 17:54           ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-29 18:31             ` Alan Cox
2003-07-30  0:17             ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-07-30  1:25               ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-30  1:37                 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-07-30  7:14                   ` Alex Riesen
2003-07-30  8:00                     ` David Lang
2003-07-31 14:33                   ` Timothy Miller
2003-07-31 14:57                     ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-07-31 15:20                       ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-31 21:41                         ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-08-01 15:25                           ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-01 17:11                             ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-07-30  1:40                 ` Petr Vandrovec
2003-07-30  2:35                   ` Petr Vandrovec
2003-07-30  5:22               ` Ville Herva
2003-07-30  5:44                 ` Gene Heskett
2003-07-31 14:36                 ` Timothy Miller
2003-07-31 16:20                   ` Herbert Pötzl [this message]
2003-07-31 16:56                     ` Mike Dresser
2003-07-31 19:55                     ` Timothy Miller
2003-07-31 23:35                       ` Ian Hastie
2003-07-30  6:03               ` jw schultz
2003-07-30  2:16             ` Miles Bader
2003-07-30  5:45               ` jw schultz
2003-07-28 20:19 ` Samuel Thibault
2003-07-28 20:27 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-29 13:02 Andries.Brouwer
2003-07-29 13:53 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-29 13:56 Andries.Brouwer
2003-07-30  6:14 Erik Andersen
2003-07-30 13:07 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-31 19:15   ` Norberto BENSA
2003-07-31 21:50     ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-07-31 20:08 Petr Vandrovec
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     [not found]           ` <frB6.8gE.7@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-08-03 10:40             ` Julien Oster
2003-08-04  0:56               ` Ian Hastie
2003-08-05 18:52               ` Timothy Miller

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