Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272809AbTG3IBi (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2003 04:01:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272810AbTG3IBi (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2003 04:01:38 -0400 Received: from warden-p.diginsite.com ([208.29.163.248]:18155 "HELO warden.diginsite.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S272809AbTG3IBh (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2003 04:01:37 -0400 From: David Lang To: Alex Riesen Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo , Linux kernel Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 01:00:01 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Turning off automatic screen clanking In-Reply-To: <20030730071417.GM13611@Synopsys.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1528 Lines: 41 are you really sure the kernel default is to blank? on my slackware systems there is a setterm -blank 15 in the startup scripts and all I have ever needed to do (1.2 through 2.4 kernels) is to comment this out and the screen never blanks. David Lang On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Alex Riesen wrote: > Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 09:14:17 +0200 > From: Alex Riesen > To: Zwane Mwaikambo > Cc: Linux kernel > Subject: Re: Turning off automatic screen clanking > > Zwane Mwaikambo, Wed, Jul 30, 2003 03:37:26 +0200: > > On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > > > > One of Richard's points is that there is presently no way to fix the > > > box in userspace. If the kernel crashes during boot, it will blank > > > the screen and there is no way to unblank it in that state. > > > > Well something like this should work without complicating things during > > panic. > > > > Does it unblank screen if panic happened while the screen was blanked? > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/