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In csu.general Xylen <mctupper@holly.colostate.edu> wrote:
: running the screensaver. I thought I needed the APM to do that. Silly
: me, Linux knows better, and lets me turn the screen off without using
: the APM. So now my questions is--What is the APM good for?

I don't really know about that.  If nothing else, it should handle that
clock strangeness for you.  It kind of a bad sign that instead of handling
the clock, it munged it up...  Jerickso has it working on a Laptop, though,
I think -- he prolly has more of an idea of APM's worth.  For the most
part, Linux machines are usually servers that are always on, so APM is
kind of stupid...

FWIW, you can handle X screen turning off with xset dpmi.  Just make
sure you remember that the time setting is in SECONDS, and not minutes.
Took me a while to figure out why my screen would turn off in 45 seconds...

And, you can spin your hard drives down with hdparm -S

: I'm still up at this hour because my program STILL doesn't work right
: and it was due 2 hours ago. :(

. . . don't wanna talk about it . . .

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