Re: 2.1.109+l-con90 breaks my APM blanking
Martin Mares (mj@albireo.ucw.cz)
Sun, 19 Jul 1998 09:23:34 +0200
> Yes. Blanking works, it suspends (not to disk), and the external monitor
> powersaves.
> All of the above fail with l-con90. The only problem I have with plain
> .109 is when I return form dosemu, the screen is not what I left, and
> the cursor is not at the end of the screen contents, so I have to do
> 'clear'.
> FWIW, the old vesa blanking stuff seemed to have an interaction with
> APM, so only certain settings of suspend time worked. If it was too
> short, the screen would blank and wake up again repeatedly. Scott called
> it a buggy bios, but I think the APM docs are screwed and the
> implementing code follows. But I can't find anything either :(
Do you have VESA blanking enabled (setterm -powersave)?
Have a nice fortnight
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