From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269237AbTGaUIn (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:08:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269242AbTGaUIm (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:08:42 -0400 Received: from mailgw.cvut.cz ([147.32.3.235]:49104 "EHLO mailgw.cvut.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269237AbTGaUIl (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:08:41 -0400 From: "Petr Vandrovec" Organization: CC CTU Prague To: Timothy Miller Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 22:08:26 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Turning off automatic screen clanking Cc: Linux kernel X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.50 Message-ID: <8D353DD1F2D@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 31 Jul 03 at 15:55, Timothy Miller wrote: > So, if there's no point to having screen-blanking, why is it in there to > begin with? To protect OLD monitors from burnin? For example. My 8 years old EIZO F764M must not be powered down/powersaved for more than few seconds, otherwise it takes about two days to get convergence back right (monitor "fixes" itself, it is just unusable until it does so as there is about 0.5cm distance between red and green and green and blue components...). > Is screen-blanking there just to make people feel better who think they > need screen-blanking? As I understand, it doesn't do any > power-management stuff anyhow. setterm -powersave powerdown. I used it until monitor told me that it was bad idea. Petr Vandrovec