Re: SparcStation 5 hanging with 2.2.19
--- Lourens O Walters <lwalters@cs.uct.ac.za> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have installed the potato distribution 2.2.19 on a SparcStation 5
> (sun4m) with 64Mb of RAM. It runs fine during the day, but on arrival
> at
> the lab in the morning it is usually hanging. The screen is blank and
> there is no response from the keyboard. On reboot everything is fine
> again.
>
> I don't have any ideas on where to start looking for the problem. Any
> suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Lourens Walters
>
> MSc. Student - University of Cape Town, South Africa
It almost sounds to me that setterm is blanking out your screen during
disuse. I'm not sure what init script changes this, maybe someone else
can tell you this, (/etc/rc.?/) but it's one of the sysinit scripts
that gets run when the machine goes into multiuser mode, I think.
I know the command to fix it would be /bin/setterm -blank 0 would keep
setterm from blanking the screen. If you found which initscript that
was in, you could edit the time period until it blanks and set it to 0.
--Alex
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