[Tfug] APM mechanisms

[Bexley Hall]

Hi,

--- Predrag Punosevac <punosevac72 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:25:50 -0700, John Karns
> <johnkarns at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Dec 30, 2007 1:43 PM, Bexley Hall
> <bexley401 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> Greetings!
> >
> > Sorry about the delay in posting this; I was away
> from a net
> > connection for the holiday ...
> >
> >> --- John Karns <johnkarns at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > I have an old Dell Inspiron 8100 with an nVidia
> card
> >> > that won't
> >> > respond to the xset command to turn off the
> >>
> >> Hmmm... my xset has no such "feature" (unless it
> >> hides under a different name/description).  While
> >> I don't run X on that box (I use the display just
> as
> >> a text console when things have bit-the-shed). 
> But,
> >> if it *did*, I could scan the sources to see
> *how*
> >> it is trying to do so...>
> >
> > My old Dell runs Ubintu 5.x, which of course
> includes X from Xorg.
> > That xset supports the syntax:
> 
> NetBSD is using XFree86 not Xorg!!! Even the most

Yes, but the xset in the X release on NetBSD supports
the same syntax as that described here.  I suspect the
implementation (in the server) is quite *similar*...

> recent 4.0 release  
> (released 10 days ago)
> uses XFree86. One of the reasons for that decision
> is rapid lack of  
> support for older hardware
> by Xorg. Even the change from 6.9 to 7.2 (FreeBSD is
> already on Xorg 7.3)  
> has made configuration of
> X on some older hardware a pain.

--don


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