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- From: schofie@cadvision.com (Dale Schofield)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Energy-saving screen blanker?
- Date: 16 Jan 1996 18:11:47 GMT
- Organization: Animatrix Services
- Message-ID: <2222.6581T1394T1006@cadvision.com>
- References: <19951222.43A538.46A8@am088.du.pipex.com>
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- >A lot of monitors these days (mine included) have an energy saving feature
- >which causes the monitor to turn off the CRT if one of the video sync lines
- >(VSYNC I think) is locked at zero voltage. Screen blankers on some machines
- >make use of this feature to effectively switch off the monitor after a set
- >delay. "Green PCs" and all that...
-
- >Is it it possible to activate this feature on the Amiga in a system-friendly
- >way? I realise that it's most likely easy to do if you are using one of the
- >many Cirrus Logic- (i.e. *VGA-) based Amiga graphics cards available, but how
- >about the native chipsets?
-
- >My machine (A500+ and various bits) turned the monitor off during an extreme
- >crash once (this crash is repeatable), and I'm hoping that there is a less
- >drastic way of achieving it ;)
-
- >--Mat.
-
- Yep, it is possible. Wonder Computers and their engineering division called
- Lazarus has released a screen blanker package called Power Manager. Version
- 2.0 will be the first commercial release, although some like myself have
- been running it since AmiJam '95 last July in Calgary. However, it only
- recently started working properly for me when using it with a Picasso. I
- now run version 1.4 and am quite happy that my monitor does the proper
- DPMS power standby.
-
- Note that Power Manager is also a disk caching package, and a disk power
- management package (for spinning down hard drives while they are inactive;
- works only on some drives). I personally only use the screen blanker side
- of the package. I am not sure of the commercial cost of the package, but
- I paid $29.95 CDN at the show.
-
- Any other questions? Email me... :)
-
- --
- TTYL. ---> Dale (Shadowhwk on IRC #lightwave, #amiga, #laserdisc)
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