Putting monitor in standby/turning it off

piercey · 09-24-2007, 06:37 AM

Hey guys,

I have a really stripped down embedded linux device which has a built in touch screen monitor (with no on/off switch etc) which is running an app over framebuffer.

I was wondering if anyone knew what options I might have for turning the monitor on/off based on activity, or even a program which could turn it on or off, enable/disable standby etc. I know of `xset dpms` which obviously requires Xorg so it won't be of any use to me.

Any suggestions are appreciated

Cheers,

MS3FGX · 09-24-2007, 08:19 AM

Have you looked into setterm?

The following should blank the display after 10 minutes, and power down after 20:

Code:

setterm -blank 10 -powersave powerdown -powerdown 20

I am pretty sure setterm will work for the FB, but can't personally test at the moment.

piercey · 09-24-2007, 10:17 AM

Thanks for the reply! The app setterm is on the box already so that's a big bonus.

Trying to run it however I get the error:

Code:

Quote:root@(none):~# setterm -blank 1
'xterm': unknown terminal type.

my $TERM is set as xterm since I have to ssh into the box (no keyboard/mouse etc). How can I set this to whatever term the machine is running ?

Thanks again!