From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 01:03:51 -0400
From: Scott Schwartz schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] screenblanker
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okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp writes:
| Unfortunayely, I've lost it, because I changed file server scince
| then.  I tried to seek an archive of this mailing-list, but failed.

The archives are available from majordomo@cse.psu.edu or from my web
page (www.cse.psu.edu/~schwartz).  (Indexing is all but nonexistent,
but I'll see if the computer center is willing to aim their search
engine at it.)

About the screen blanker... the bell-labs screensaver works by setting
the colormap to all black.  I prefered to add hooks to /dev/vga (also
in the archives somewhere) so that you can turn off horizontal or
vertical sync (via vgactl), which tells modern monitors to go into
power save mode.  Considering the amount of heat those things put out,
my living room in the summertime really appreciates it.