Re: disabling console blanking
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:16:35 +0100, martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> wrote:
> I have a 2.6.5 machine in my basement, with CONFIG_PM disabled.
> Unfortunately, it started freezing on me recently, and so I would
> like to find out if it prints anything to the screen just before.
> However, this seems to be impossible, as the console blanks itself
> after a couple of minutes. As said, CONFIG_PM is disabled, and
> I tried both:
>
> setterm -blank 0
> setterm -powersafe off
>
> but it keeps going black. Does anyone know what I could do?
>
You can try to look in /etc/console-tools/config
Andrea
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