Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S274865AbTGaToM (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:44:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S274867AbTGaToL (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:44:11 -0400 Received: from kinesis.swishmail.com ([209.10.110.86]:1544 "HELO kinesis.swishmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S274865AbTGaToJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:44:09 -0400 Message-ID: <3F297429.1010302@techsource.com> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:55:21 -0400 From: Timothy Miller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: herbert@13thfloor.at CC: Linux kernel Subject: Re: Turning off automatic screen clanking References: <20030730052213.GU150921@niksula.cs.hut.fi> <3F29296E.6000602@techsource.com> <20030731162037.GB32759@www.13thfloor.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1031 Lines: 32 Herbert P?tzl wrote: >>Why don't we borrow a trick from my old Atari 8-bit computer. Instead >>of blanking, cycle the colors. Best of both worlds: You save your >>monitor AND you get to see what's on the screen. > > > hmm, ignoring the issue that modern monitors will not > suffer the burnin, how would it help to cycle the colors? > the only valid solution would be inverting the image on > a regular basis, and I don't think that this would be > appreciated ... > So, if there's no point to having screen-blanking, why is it in there to begin with? To protect OLD monitors from burnin? Is screen-blanking there just to make people feel better who think they need screen-blanking? As I understand, it doesn't do any power-management stuff anyhow. What's the deal? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/