Re: OI! Turn my screen back on!

[Pigeon <jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk>]

On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 08:35:49AM +0100, Micha? `Salvador' J?czalik Jr wrote:
>  * Person DvB <imasu@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> >> How can I prevent a semi-headless machine (no keyboard, but
> >> occasionally has monitor) from blanking its screen and needing either
> >> a keyboard plugged in, or a command executed via ssh that causes a
> >> kernel error of some sort, to bring the display back up? Ie. what
> >> config file do I need to edit to say "never blank the video output"?
> > Section "ServerFlags" in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 maybe?
> > xset -dpms might also work (man xset; man XF86Config).
> 
>  And if it's not under Xserver, he should try ,,man setterm''.
>  [...] 
>  [ -powersave [on|vsync|hsync|powerdown|off] ]
>  [ -powerdown [0-60] ]
>  [ -blank [0-60] ]
>  [...]

setterm -blank 0 ... works! Cool! That's exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks,

Pigeon