Re: MDACON not screen blanking

Martin Mares (mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Thu, 15 Oct 1998 16:02:59 +0200


Hello,

> How is it non trivial? Couldn't the code just be hacked so that
> when the monitor blanking code is executed, it checks for
> multiple monitors, and then blanks them all? Any quick hack is
> better than nothing IMHO. My mono monitor is going to burn in...

There are two non-trivial bits:

[1] There is no list of monitors.

[2] You need to distinguish between pseudo-blanking (used when
VGA enters graphics mode), real blanking and VESA blanking.

Have a nice fortnight

-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
"Ctrl and Alt keys stuck -- press Del to continue."

- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/