On Fri, 2 Feb 2001 at 10:48pm (-0600), David Talkington wrote:
>
> Hi folks -
>
> I have kernel 2.4 running with no APM or ACPI support. apmd is not
> running at boot. Still, my monitor blanks after a period of
> inactivity, in both X and console modes. Since this is a network
> monitor, I do not desire this behavior. I have confirmed that it is
> not a BIOS setting, and have also confirmed that this behavior is not
> present in DOS, so it is definitely something Linux is doing.
>
> I'm sure I'm about to feel really silly, but what am I missing?
>
Hmm... for console try...
setterm -blank 0
... and for X11 try...
xset s off
... i think the console one can be done once at boot up, pretty sure xset
needs to be each time the X server is restarted. Prolly wanna through it in
your X start scripts or xdm session scripts.
M.
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