From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 08:28:44 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <85699605f5b932b944e4300581aff25b@brasstown.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: <761B3FC6-018E-4663-AFFA-452BCC3B410A@quintile.net> References: <20140515222634.8E091B82A@mail.bitblocks.com> <761B3FC6-018E-4663-AFFA-452BCC3B410A@quintile.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] RaspberryPi, monitor energy saving Topicbox-Message-UUID: e6ca7994-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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