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- From: jaco@stack.urc.tue.nl (Jaco Schoonen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Energy-saving screen blanker?
- Date: 18 Jan 1996 15:06:57 +0200
- Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
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- Dale Schofield (schofie@cadvision.com) wrote:
-
- : >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?
-
-
- Yes, it's possible. The latest version of MCP (A multifunctional commodity)
- has an option for power management. If you're using CyberGraphx it caslls
- the appropriate library calls and if you run native Amiga modes, it has a
- special DMA-mode, which switches off the sync (or something...)
-
- Hope this helps!
-
- --
- Jaco Schoonen
- (jaco@stack.urc.tue.nl)
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