screensaver

[tinypoodle]

another thing that can go unotticed with TCL is the cpu governor and throttling of the frequency
for saving..... which is applied to your chip.  It would be nice if people knew about that if they needed to and how to enable or disable it.

Perhaps this could be of use to you:
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,15110.msg86851.html#msg86851

[cast-fish]

thankyou poodle

these topics are somewhat interesting

it seems that dpms only comes into play when you are running xorg

the best settings for me are "xset dpms 0 0 40" which turns the screen off to below 8 watts power usage after 40 seconds

when watching a movie, dpms  is totally turned off as  a feature  "xset -dpms"

to turn on the "OFF saving feature" at wil then........ "xset dpms force off"

wiki says that the 4 dpms settings are

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_Display_Power_Management_Signaling

[tinypoodle]

it seems that dpms only comes into play when you are running xorg

I seem to remember that dpms never was available on Xvesa/Kdrive/tinyX servers beyond from Core.

the best settings for me are "xset dpms 0 0 40" which turns the screen off to below 8 watts power usage after 40 seconds

I suspect those values would only apply to CRT monitors.

[cast-fish]

yes poodle

what is the remaining power managements systems of tcl?

is it "acpi"?

what i mean to say is.....are there any other extra ways of managing the power
your laptop consumes with tcl?....(apart form dpms which seems to be just screen related)

i realize that throtting the cpu already happens.....

is it true to say that TCL already defaults to loading up some power management extension and
what is that extension?

how do you  know if your laptop supports acpi etc?

thanks

Vince.

[tinypoodle]

You are hijacking the subject of your own thread...
You may want to look into laptop-mode-tools.tcz & powertop.tcz.

[cast-fish]

ok thanks

[tinypoodle]

I forgot to mention suspend-utils

[cast-fish]

thanks thanks

[cast-fish]

Hell

could only get this half working

it suspends the machine.    (kind of hibernates i think)

It wakes the machine back up with a keypress, but does not re-awaken the connected USB devices.   

s2ram

never tried  s2disk  but if you know an answer would apprecite it.

[tinypoodle]

See Reply #19.
No relation to original post whatsoever, feel free to start a new thread with specific subject.