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Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 09:59:58 -0700
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] RaspberryPi, monitor energy saving
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> On May 16, 2014, at 5:43 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
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>> On Fri May 16 08:33:41 EDT 2014, steve@quintile.net wrote:
>> Mmm, that feels like good and bad news.
>>
>> I know richard did what he could to shut down the screen when
>> its idle for a while so that seems to do the right thing with vga
>> monitors, but I guess I do need CEC.
>>
>> Oh well, time for more digging.
>
> is a hdmi->vga connector too gruesome, or unworkable?

Adafruit sells one for $19.