Bug 267808

Summary:	setterm -powersave powerdown (or any equiv) doesnt work
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Dominique dHotman <dominique>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Dominique dHotman 2009-04-28 20:45:34 UTC

I recently switched from running a full X server to using a frame buffer console. When the machine is not in use I would like to turn off the screen. In X I used dpms but that's obviously no longer available so I did some reading and found that setterm should be able to yield a similar result. setterm works fine to configure the screen blanking but none of the powerdown functionality works.
I've tried many different iterations but basically none of the following works:
setterm -powersave on
setterm -powersave powerdown
setterm -powerdown 1

I found a reference to the same problem at: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12653

but as its a gentoo installation I thought best to log it here.

sorry if this is wasting your time but not sure how to progress this issue?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. setterm -powersave on
2. setterm -powersave powerdown
3. setterm -powerdown 1

Screen stays on



Expected Results:  
screen should turn off but it does not

Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-04-28 21:26:10 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 267805 ***