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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] RaspberryPi, monitor energy saving
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 08:28:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85699605f5b932b944e4300581aff25b@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <761B3FC6-018E-4663-AFFA-452BCC3B410A@quintile.net>

On Fri May 16 04:47:03 EDT 2014, steve@quintile.net wrote:

> i believe that this works for vga attached monitors, vesa says that when the clocks
> disappear on the sync the monitor should shutdown.
>
> the raspberry pi uses hdmi and also it doesn't use a vesa bios, it has a gpu bios
> which does a similar job but is not standardised, and, though it is documented,
> it can be tough to use (for me at least).
>
> i am happy to be contradicted on any of this of couse.

i don't have any hdmi monitors, but the vga monitors i do have
will power down when connected to the pi.  i can't check my
source against sources right now since i can't seem to connect.

- erik



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-16 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-15 21:04 Steve Simon
2014-05-15 22:26 ` Bakul Shah
2014-05-16  3:53   ` Shane Morris
2014-05-16  8:45     ` Steve Simon
2014-05-16  9:27       ` Shane Morris
2014-05-16 12:28       ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2014-05-16 12:32         ` Steve Simon
2014-05-16 12:43           ` erik quanstrom
2014-05-16 16:59             ` Bakul Shah

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