[Nouveau] help with signal from monitor

[don fisher]

I have an Alienware laptop that has Nvidia GTX 880M hardware driven by 
this driver. I recently purchased an ASUS_VN289H monitor. When my system 
gives a blanking command, the monitor returns some sort of lost signal 
message which causes the monitor to unblank and the time out I requested 
is cancelled. This is probably more of an HDMI question than specific to 
this hardware, but I was wondering if there was any way to control what 
signals generated buy the monitor are passed up the chain, and if they 
can be filtered. I also have an ACER monitor that does not do this.

Sorry if this is off topic for this list. Any pointer would be appreciated.

Don