Power-Saving States Defined by VESA

 

Level State

DPMS Compliance

 

 

Requirements

 

State

 

DPMS Compliance

Power Savings

Recovery Time

 

 

 

 

Requirements

 

 

0

 

Screen Saver

 

Not Applicable

None

Very Short (<1 sec)

1

 

Stand-by

 

Optional

Minimal

Short

2

 

Suspend

 

Mandatory

Substantial

Longer

3

 

Off

 

Mandatory

Maximum

System Dependent

The actual amount of power saved and the recovery time for each of the states is monitor-dependent and may vary widely. The customer can compensate for this by choosing an appropriate level for the monitor that is currently in use.

By default, the DPMS level used is the Screen Saver (i.e. no power savings). If you wish to use power saving during screen blanking, set the following X*screens file entry before starting the server:

MinimumMonitorPowerSaveLevel <level>

where <level> is replaced with the single digit 0, 1, 2, or 3 as specified in the Level column in the above table.

MBX

The MBX extension (Multi-Buffering Extension) is supported on all graphics devices supported on the HP 9000/700 machines, except the PersonalVRX and the TurboVRX.

HP's implementation of MBX exists mainly to support fast double-buffering for PEX applications. Therefore, MBX only supports allocation of one or two MBX buffers; no more. Some graphics devices/visuals have a single 8-plane buffer; this includes the color graphics device and the overlay planes on the CRX-24[Z], CRX-48Z, HCRX, and HP VISUALIZE family. For these devices, MBX double-buffering is still supported, but the second bank is allocated in virtual memory. Rendering and buffer-swapping in these instances is slower than devices/visuals that support true hardware double- buffering.

There is no easy way to determine which visuals, from a device's list of visuals, support fast MBX hardware double-buffering. The CRX and Dual-CRX device is a double-buffered device and therefore always supports MBX hardware double-buffering. The Internal Color Graphics, Integrated Color Graphics or Color Graphics card devices only support MBX software buffering. All other devices that have both overlay and image planes support fast MBX hardware double-buffering in the image planes and slower MBX software double-buffering in the overlays. Consult the following device-specific sections for a list of visuals that support software and hardware MBX double-buffering.

For performance reasons, the default MBX behavior is to not synchronize with the monitors vertical retrace period. In some instances, image tearing could be visible while swapping large MBX windows. For those instances where tearing would occur and is undesirable, an optional X server mode is available

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