From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FAC01381F3 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2013 22:17:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CA2C0E0C62; Fri, 18 Oct 2013 22:17:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [5.9.116.23]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDB75E0C4B for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2013 22:17:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9C823DC0E9E for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2013 23:17:44 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (78-32-181-186.static.enta.net [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2D584DC00E6 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2013 23:17:44 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Console won't un-blank Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 23:17:43 +0100 Message-ID: <2994268.NcV3i0XWSn@wstn> Organization: Retired software quality manager User-Agent: KMail/4.10.5 (Linux/3.10.7-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.10.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <87vc0vjsru.fsf@blackwolfinfosys.net> References: <87vc0vjsru.fsf@blackwolfinfosys.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-DSPAM-Result: Whitelisted X-DSPAM-Processed: Fri Oct 18 23:17:44 2013 X-DSPAM-Confidence: 0.9899 X-DSPAM-Probability: 0.0000 X-DSPAM-Signature: 5261b38846961528516215 X-Archives-Salt: f3c44ff9-a73d-4e2f-8d5b-f9354f55a5a3 X-Archives-Hash: 4b80291be1cc09657d1b179a1cf09a2d 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