Re: disabling Linux's screen blanker

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Thu, 7 Oct 1999 11:04:26 -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.
>
> Hmm. What kernel, what setterm?
> For me (2.2.12, setterm from kbd-0.99) it works fine.
>
> Andries
>

It doesn't have a version number. `strings` doesn't show any version.
Its date was december 1998. The kernel is 2.3.13 (and the past year).

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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