On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 06:11:45PM +0200, Matthias Drochner wrote:
> There is however no screensaver framework within wscons, so
> the display would not go off or on automatically.

Hm. I gues this would be the best place though.

> In the "power" menu of my Thinkpad's setup is an item
> "LCD off timer".

Not for my Omnibook 800

> The apm driver doesn't support this well at the moment.

I am no apm expert at all. From looking at the rev 1.2 bios interface
spec, it looks like the Set Power State command (0x07) with device id
0x01xx and Power state 0x03 could do the trick. Even if not from
wscons, but then from apm. Perhaps it would be an idea, when wscons
just had two hooks, that call a external tool after some time without
activity (blank screen) and to redisplay. This would allow for
different "screen savers" like e.g screen blanking or calling lock(1).

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