On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 14:16, Chris Knowles wrote: > On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 14:05, Brian Henning wrote: > > I don't know about Debian in particular, but I can attest to John's claim > > that it's not X that is messing with you. A text login would do the same > > thing, and my guess is that it's an apm issue. Check your BIOS, and also > > any apm software you may have running, for screen-blanking (or shut-off) > > options. > > > > Hope this isn't completely off-the-wall, > > ~Brian > > <SNIP LOTS OF OTHER STUFF> > > It could be an APM issue, but console blanking is turned on on debian. > After GTFW, for "linux console screen blanking" I found several > references to "setterm -blank N" where N is the number of minutes to > elapse before the console is blanked. N=0 will disable this. >
I was under the impression that this console blanking only applies to the text virual terminals (e.g., Ctrl-alt-f1 through f6). The original poster was running X, and he's gone through the necessary steps to turn off the various X blanking set up. But David Rasch pointed out on IRC that maybe there is a bug in some versions of Debian in which the console blanking DOES still apply in X, even though it shouldn't. Hmm. Jeremy -- /---------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Jeremy Portzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] trilug.org/~jeremy | | GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F E135 6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92 | \---------------------------------------------------------------------/
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