Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272491AbTGaOWM (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 10:22:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272488AbTGaOWM (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 10:22:12 -0400 Received: from kinesis.swishmail.com ([209.10.110.86]:58376 "HELO kinesis.swishmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S272491AbTGaOWI (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 10:22:08 -0400 Message-ID: <3F2928AD.90501@techsource.com> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 10:33:17 -0400 From: Timothy Miller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zwane Mwaikambo CC: Jamie Lokier , "Richard B. Johnson" , James Simmons , Charles Lepple , Linux kernel Subject: Re: Turning off automatic screen clanking References: <20030730012533.GA18663@mail.jlokier.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 713 Lines: 26 Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > 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. > [snip] This looks like it prevents blanking after panic. What about UNblanking during panic? - 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/