Morning all – todays quandary – I have 2 systems with venomlinux, both setup with identical xset settings, one (Dell laptop) blanks the screen, like it should, where as the other (Mac mini with Dell screen) doesn’t – why not?

#kenel #lts
Added linux-lts-5.15.57 to repo
https://gitlab.com/visone/venom-kernels.git

https://github.com/venomlinux/ports/blob/3.0/scripts/ports.csv

#kernel #linux
Added linux-5.18.14 to repos
https://gitlab.com/visone/venom-kernels.git
https://gitea.com/venom-linux/venom-kernels.git

We migrated the repo from gitlab to gitea, this next week both will be operatives, then just the gitea one.

morning all – todays quandary – I have 2 systems with venomlinux, both setup with identical xset settings, one (Dell laptop) blanks the screen, like it should, where as the other (Mac mini with Dell screen) doesn’t – why not???

Need help with b43 drivers onto kernel

Ok other distro I just install b43-fwcutter and extract the firmware

Here on venom when I do modprobe it says “b43 module is built in) but I still cannot use my wifi card

It’s a mac unfortunately I can’t swap it

Any help? I can share the .config

@emmett1 @Visone_Selektah

Morning!!! I gues the hardware is different, can you share those settings?

If I’m right, b43-fwcutter as another module, a different one. Trying to remove the kernel builtin one first and then install the new one

So i need to deactivate b43 into my kernel

Then recompile

Then go b43 route

Right?

no no, just search for the b43 module and remove it, then install the new one and firmware.
Some like lsmod | grep b43
modprobe -r <mod>
Then b43 route

Into usr/lib/firmare ?

Ok I’ll try.. thanks

Modprobe -r is to remove ? Or to reload?

remove

what do you need??? The laptop is an Dell Inspiron N5110 and the main box is a late 2012 Mac Mini with a Dell screen

What do you want to do, it’s depends of hardware? What config are you using?

I just want the screen to blank (like it does on the laptop) on the mac mini – both systems setup the same (as far as I can see) but one blanks and the other one doesn’t 🙁

I can force the mac mini to blank but it doesn’t do it automagically

I guess one have dpms active and the other not. Let me check one thing

Check this link.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Display_Power_Management_Signaling

On the mac mini I run “(sleep 1 ; xset dpms force off ; /usr/bin/slock.bja ; xset +dpms)” which both blanks the screen and runs slock – be nice if I could fine a way to auto run that after a period of no action – like a screensaver would

I have tried doing that using xset with the same settings – will create file like page says and see if that better 🙂

To put the display to standby after 100 seconds, to suspend after 200 seconds, and turn it off after 300 seconds, run xset dpms 100 200 300

btw ‘xset q’ returns the same on both systems

I use ‘xset dpms 0 0 300’

You can set those options with any script/alias/command or make a config file and your system would used them always

Yeah the valors you want, but that’s the sintaxys

reading that page you sent me it talks about using ‘xset s …’ – will try that