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From: mwilley@pac30.intel.com (Mark Willey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: Re: GreenBSD
Date: 5 Oct 1994 16:59:41 GMT
Organization: Intel MAP
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <36um1v$iat@inews.intel.com>
References: <Pine.SUN.3.90.941003225840.5045F-100000@typhoon.cs.odu.edu>
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In article <Pine.SUN.3.90.941003225840.5045F-100000@typhoon.cs.odu.edu>, Mike Olson <olson@cs.odu.edu> writes:
|> 
|> Once long long ago before I had an Energy Star Compliant monitor I read a
|> debate in FreeBSD-Questions about Makeing a screensaver put your Monitor  
|> in Suspend Mode. I don't know if the default X Screan Blanker, the Console
|> Screen Saver or xsreensaver was being refered to. Does anyone else know   
|> anything about this. I get tired of wondering if I forget to turn off my
|> power-hog monitor.

I also have such a monitor.  However, I think your video card must also support
this???  The XFree86 3.1 supports Greening for S3 and SVGA servers.  If a green
video card is not needed, then I would like to work on getting the ATI server
working with the Green saver.

Mark

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