[K12OSN] Re: Saving Monitor Power

[Les Mikesell]

On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 13:36, Carl Keil wrote:
> >On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 09:13, Terrell Prudé, Jr. wrote:
> >
> 
> >> I've see that one before.  I have a 21-inch HP P1110 CRT monitor that
> >> won't go to sleep, but the screen saver turns on just fine.  However,
> >> my Sharp 19-inch LCD monitor goes to sleep flawlessly.
> >  
> >
> 
> >Are the client BIOS settings the same?
> 
> I was wondering if I should look in the BIOS. Which BIOS settings should 
> I be looking at? They are completely different boxes, one's an old 
> gateway and one is an actual thin client from Amer. It's the Amer with 
> the Dell LCD that's not sleeping. BTW - I was wondering, does anyone 
> think that reducing AGP aperture would speed up performance in a thin 
> client setting?

Look under power saving settings.  I'm not sure how the bios and
linux/X settings interact.  I think it may be different for
different versions with the newer ones trying to work more
directly with the ACPI bios settings - but it may also depend
on the age of the bios.

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  Les Mikesell
    les at futuresource.com