Re: "fatal" screen blanking (was: Getting amd64 stretch netinstall to work)
Gene Heskett composed on 2019-04-04 15:09 (UTC-0400):
> ...I had other things to do and left mc running but sitting idle
> while I attended to the washing machine and walked to the mailbox to get
> todays mail. On returning, the screen had been blanked. Nothing on the
> keyboard or mouse would unblank it, and I had to resort to the reset
> button.
> TDE-trinity is now installed and was rebooted to at the time. No
> screenblanker gfx had yet been assigned, nor had an "xset -q" been run
> to see what the defaults might have been. So I am rebooted back to
> wheezy pending advice on what to do about this as I don't expect to have
> to reset & reboot the machine everytime I walk away for ten minutes.
> Hopefully someone else has encountered this and knows the fix.
Were you running MC in TDE? Have you set its screen power save to maximum 120
minutes (as I do)?
Have you tried booting with consoleblank=0 on kernel cmdline?
Have you tried anything like xorg.conf for dpms? e.g.
/etc/xorg.conf.d/50-monitor.conf:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "DefaultMonitor"
Option "DPMS" "off"
EndSection
Have you tried setting BIOS suspend mode to S1 instead of (typical default) S3?
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