Re: console and screen blanking

[cjw44@cam.ac.uk (Colin Watson)]

lanceh@ibm.net (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.

As mentioned in another thread recently, 'setterm -blank 0' in your
.bash_profile will disable screen blanking (though I'm not sure if
that's cancelled when you log out ...).

-- 
Colin Watson                                           [cjw44@cam.ac.uk]