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From: Kris Maglione <bsdaemon@comcast.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] how to run screensaver on cpu server console
Date: Wed,  1 Aug 2007 14:56:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070801185637.GA43510@kris.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10b109140707312344t674a5740kcc3c90cdd02e3216@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 08:44:59AM +0200, Antonin Vecera wrote:
>And aux/vga I cannot use because when I start it with enabled both
>cpu's (Core Duo processor) the graphics gets corrupted. In text mode
>it works well. But without the screensaver.
>Everybody unplugs his monitor cable or burns out his CRT/LCD screen?

You don't want to blank the screen, you want to actually turn it 
off. Just blanking an LCD will burn it out as fast as, if not 
faster than, not doing so (blanking the screen leaves the 
backlight on, and turns each pixel completely on). See apm(8).

-- 
Kris Maglione

You can't guard against the arbitrary.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-01 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-31 20:01 Antonin Vecera
2007-07-31 20:05 ` ron minnich
2007-07-31 20:17   ` andrey mirtchovski
2007-08-01  6:44     ` Antonin Vecera
2007-08-01 18:56       ` Kris Maglione [this message]
2007-08-01 20:06         ` Antonin Vecera

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