From: Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Console won't un-blank
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 23:17:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2994268.NcV3i0XWSn@wstn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vc0vjsru.fsf@blackwolfinfosys.net>
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.
--
Regards,
Peter
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-18 22:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-18 1:02 [gentoo-user] Console won't un-blank Michael J. Barillier
2013-10-18 4:48 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-10-18 20:40 ` [gentoo-user] " Holger Hoffstaette
2013-10-18 21:15 ` Holger Hoffstaette
2013-10-20 18:02 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2013-10-22 1:52 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2013-10-18 22:17 ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
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