On Thursday 17 Oct 2013 21:02:13 Michael J. Barillier wrote:
> If I leave my laptop unattended (at a console, not X) and the screen
> blanks, pressing a key won't un-blank the terminal. As a test, I ssh'ed
> into the laptop and ran:
>
> # setterm -blank poke >/dev/tty$N
>
> (as root, for the current/active TTY) which according to the man page
> should restore the screen - no response. Also tried chvt but that
> didn't work either. Any suggestions on where to look to see why the
> terminal won't restore? Is this a kernel config (ACPI?) issue, or an
> agetty issue?
Have you tried specifying these commands on the kernel line?
consoleblank=0 noclear
The former is AFAIK equivalent to setterm -blank 0 but takes effect right from
the beginning of the boot sequence; the latter prevents blanking out of the
console boot messages just before the login prompt is shown.
One of those might help.
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Regards,
Peter
