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From: Scott Schwartz schwartz@fin...
Subject: No subject
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 1997 22:46:00 EDT

rob@pla... writes:
| I put screen blanking portably into Brazil by just setting
| the color map to all zeros after a quiet period.  Mouse action
| restores it.

That doesn't achieve the same effect, because it doesn't invoke
the VESA power saving mode.  Modern monitors watch the HSYNC and
VSYNC signals; if one stops they blank the screen in a moderate
power saving mode, and if both stop the monitor goes to very low
power mode.  

-- Scott