On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 23:41 -0600, Robert Nichols wrote: > What is the correct way to turn off the kernel's screen blanking? This > is part of the VT driver and is totally independent of the X Window > System's screen blanking and screensaver, so don't tell me about "xset > dpms off" or the various xscreensaver options. The only way I've found > to turn off the kernel's blanking is to log in on a virtual console and > run "setterm -powersave off". If I forget to turn it off, the kernel > will shut off my monitor while I'm actively working because the VT > driver is unaware of keyboard and mouse acrivity that occurs in an X > Window session. > > Short of patching the kernel to disable that feature, is there a way to > disable it automatically when X is running? It would be nice to leave > it active when X is not running, but I'd be happy just to get rid of it. > Although it seems a bit of a hack, you could put the setterm line in /etc/rc.d/rc.local and it should do what you want. > -- > Bob Nichols rnichols42@xxxxxxxxxxx >
