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- From: ganek@apollo.hp.com (Dan Ganek)
- Subject: Re: Idle nodes? (was Re: automatic screen turn-off)
- Sender: usenet@apollo.hp.com (Usenet News)
- Message-ID: <BtwMGy.EG0@apollo.hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:48:34 GMT
- References: <1992Sep1.041400.11601@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
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- >In article <BtuqtL.Jor@apollo.hp.com> ganek@apollo.hp.com (Dan Ganek)
- >writes:
- >> Under the DM and Xapollo the following events will unblank the
- >> screen: (I don't know about Xdomain)
- >> 1) Keyboard/mouse input
- >> 2) Window reconfiguration, i.e. create, delete, move, resize, etc.
- >> (Graphical output to a window will NOT unblank the screen.)
- >> 3) Program call to gpr_$video_ctl();
- >
- >I cannot find any documentation on the gpr_$video_ctl call. (Not that I
- >would need it at the moment.)
- >
- >Thanks in advance,
- >
- >Paul Szabo - System Manager // School of Mathematics and Statistics
- >
-
- From /sys/ins/gpr.ins.pas:
-
- { GPR_$VIDEO_CTL -- turn video on/off }
- PROCEDURE gpr_$video_ctl(
- IN on_off: boolean;
- OUT status: status_$t { returned status }
- ); EXTERN;
-
- TRUE unblanks the screen, FALSE blanks and resets the timeout
-
- This replaced smd_$video_ctl.
-
- /dan
-