Re: disabling Linux's screen blanker

Guest section DW (dwguest@win.tue.nl)
Thu, 7 Oct 1999 16:50:39 +0200 (MET DST)

>>> 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.

Hmm. What kernel, what setterm?
For me (2.2.12, setterm from kbd-0.99) it works fine.

Andries

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