Re: MDACON not screen blanking

Mike A. Harris (mharris@ican.net)
Thu, 15 Oct 1998 10:29:08 -0400 (EDT)

On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Martin Mares wrote:

>> How is it non trivial? Couldn't the code just be hacked so that
>> when the monitor blanking code is executed, it checks for
>> multiple monitors, and then blanks them all? Any quick hack is
>> better than nothing IMHO. My mono monitor is going to burn in...
>
> There are two non-trivial bits:
>
> [1] There is no list of monitors.
>
> [2] You need to distinguish between pseudo-blanking (used when
>VGA enters graphics mode), real blanking and VESA blanking.

Any plans on doing Alpha code work on the driver for this? Or is
it a 2.3 thing?

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