Re: problem with screensaver under character-type terminal
On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 22:51, Frank Thesen wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> on my woody system, I have trouble with automatic screen blanking just
> under the character-type terminal. With X it works fine.
>
> After some time, the terminal clears and nothing more on the console
> reacts. No mouse-moving, no typing, even no ctr-alt-del works. But the
> machine is still working fine with its server-services (ssh, dhcp,
> dns).
>
> The problem apeared, as I compiled a kernel by myself (2.4.19). Is it
> a problem of the powermanagement? I have no running apmd, because I
> don't want to use any powermanagement functions.
I assume you are using a framebuffer. There is an option on kernel
build to use APM for screen blanking. It sounds like you probably want
to build a new kernel with that off.
Cheers,
Andrew.
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