Re: disabling Linux's screen blanker

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Thu, 7 Oct 1999 10:18:09 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Guest section DW wrote:

> > i would like to know if there's a way to disable the screen blanker
>
> setterm -blank 0
>

I wish this worked (it doesn't). Somewhere around version 2 it no longer
did anything.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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