Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Inactivity Monitor v1.0

[Bill Davidsen]

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.

--
bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979

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