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power down a monitor from CLI (SSH)
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MEPIS Novice  Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2010 11:40 am Posts: 15 Has thanked: 0 time Have thanks: 0 time 
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Post # 252760
 power down a monitor from CLI (SSH)Hi,
I have an old laptop as a fileserver with Mepis8. Normally, the machine do not use Xorg ( init 3). But I want also to shutdown the screen. If the KDE is used, then from Power management the screen can be power down after few minutes. How can I obtain the same effect from command line ? I noticed that now after few minutes the screen goes black. I repeat is black and not power down. I'm accesing the machine by SSH. I tried with xset but is not working. The error is "cannot open display". any ideas ? Thanks |
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| Mon Nov 29, 2010 4:38 pm |
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MEPIS Rules!   Joined: Fri Sep 07, 2007 8:11 am Posts: 463 Location: North Shore of Lake Erie Has thanked: 4 times Have thanks: 16 times
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Post # 252770
Try logging into you server with "ssh -X". This will allow you to run X applications remotely assuming X is running. Once logged in you can call what ever application you like such as the system settings.
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| Mon Nov 29, 2010 7:31 pm |
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MEPIS Novice Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2010 11:40 am Posts: 15 Has thanked: 0 time Have thanks: 0 time
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Post # 252810
I found a solution. I do not know if is the best one but this is what I did.
since my X is not running , I used "vbetool dpms off". It simply power down the monitor from BIOS settings. To start again the monitor, I have to make "vbetool dpms on". Of course all this have to be run as root. |
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| Tue Nov 30, 2010 5:13 am |
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Post # 252834
Learned something new, thanks for sharing. By the way, this is a fishy thread  |
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| Tue Nov 30, 2010 1:17 pm |
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