Re: console and screen blanking
On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 09:12:15PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> How do I shut off the screen blanking in a console? Screen blanking used to
> work fine but I installed a new motherboard (Can't remember brand (SOYO?)
> but now when the screen blanks and stays blanked over night it locks up my
> computer and I have to turn the power off and reboot. I want to turn the
> screen blanking off and see if this keeps the computer from locking up
> or whether the problem lies somewhere else.
I had this problem with an old 486. In my case it was solved by upgrading
the kernel to 2.2.13 It seemed to be a memory leak that was causing
my problem, as I found that if I killed off some of the various daemons
that were running it would last longer before locking up.
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