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Re: APM console blanking



On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:51:10PM -0700, Brian McGroarty wrote:
| I'm using the stock potato 2.2.19 kernel and I've added apm=on
| to the kernel command line.
| 
| How do I enable apm console blanking? I'm not using X on this
| system, and I'd like to power off the display after 5 minutes of
| no mouse/keyboard.

I have no idea how to set it, but it works here.  Well, I don't know
if it is 5 minutes or more, but the monitors (both my "new" 17" NEC (a
new box) and the old (brandless) junker of a monitor on an old 486 I
have) shut off after some inactivity.  Do yours shut off after longer
inactivity?

-D



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