On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:16:05AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
> > No. There are no ANSI, nor DEC nor AT&T nor IRIS, nor IBM, nor any
> > other terminals that have screen-blanking capabilities.
>
> Yes there are. I guess you never used any of them.
>
> [The brand that immediately comes to mind is Wyse, but I seem to recall
> the H29 having this capability too...]
I can't speak for the others but according to my Wyse 50
manual the S.SAVER feature in the field level 4 menu
has a default value of OFF.
My recollection is that this was common among the VDTs which
suffered considerably from burn-in. Many of the later
models had the feature but it was a hardware setting
controlled via a configuration menu or a dip-switch. You
want the setting to persist across logins and power cycling.
It really should be disabled in-kernel by default. The
distribution RC scripts would as a default then enable it
late in the boot process. In a server setting where it
isn't wanted the admin should know enough to prevent its
being enabled.
I too have been bitten by this on servers where the console
display is either powered down or disconnected for months at
a time. The error messages leading to the hang may be in
the display buffer but they can't be seen.
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