Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 4570] New: vesafb, Console goes black after some time of inactivity, but does not put monitor in standby

[Andrew M. <ak...@os...>]

Geert Uytterhoeven <ge...@li...> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 1 May 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Begin forwarded message:
> > 
> > Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 13:16:17 -0700
> > From: bug...@os...
> > To: bug...@li...
> > Subject: [Bugme-new] [Bug 4570] New: vesafb, Console goes black after some time of inactivity, but does not put monitor in standby
> > 
> > 
> > http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4570
> > 
> >            Summary: vesafb, Console goes black after some time of
> >                     inactivity, but does not put monitor in standby
> >     Kernel Version: 2.6.*
> >             Status: NEW
> >           Severity: normal
> >              Owner: jsi...@in...
> >          Submitter: bon...@in...
> > 
> > 
> > Distribution: Gentoo 
> > Hardware Environment: 
> >     Does not matter, all my computers have same problem 
> > Software Environment: 
> > Problem Description: 
> > After some time of inactivity the console goes black, but does not put monitor   
> > into standby mode (this works in X with driver for the card, have not tried  
> > with vesa driver in X) 
> > What I would expect is that the monitor is put in stand-by when the console  
> > goes blank. (Tweaking with fbset does not help) 
> >  
> > Steps to reproduce: 
> > Work on linux console (not under X ;-)), then keep away from keyboard/mouse 
> > for some time.
> 
> man setterm(1).
> 
> Does it work if you don't use vesafb, but the plain VGA text console?
> 

Did we hear back on any of this?  Is the bug still present in 2.6.12-rc5?