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Re: disabling console blanking



On Thursday, 23.12.2004 at 13:16 +0100, martin f krafft 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?

I have:

setterm -blank 0
setterm -powersave off
setterm -powerdown 0

which appears to work.

Dave.
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