setterm -powersave problem

[LX_Xero]

I currently have DPMS and power saving working in X just fine, it will shut my monitor off etc, but it does not work in console, where I really need it. I have tried enabling APM, doesn't work. Infact, it disables itself because my computer has SMP, but according to the help on the kernel its not for vesa powersave anyway. I also tried enabling ACPI with no luck. Blanking works fine, I can blank the monitor on the console, but this is not what I am trying to do. Any help would be appreciated. I forgot to mention I am running slackware 8.0, and tried it on both 2.4.14 and 2.4.5 kernel, both no go.

[ 12 November 2001: Message edited by: LX_Xero ]

[error27]

>>I also tried enabling ACPI with no luck.

I think that linux support for ACPI is pretty shoddy right now. Every driver needs to support it or it doesn't work and right now a lot of drivers don't. It's a 2.5 issue ( 2.5 is forking this week or the next prolly. :)

The other thing is you may have to use setterm -powerdown 1 to set the time for the monitor to turn off.

Also remember that it gets reset everytime you log in. So you can put that in your ~/.bash_profile or probably someplace in /etc

I'm not sure if all this helps but maybe it's some ideas.

[LX_Xero]

I have tried setterm -powerdown 1 many times, along with setterm -blank 1 -powersave powerdown, I've tried everything imaginable (well hopefully not) I havn't been able to figure this out at all, it seems like it should work.