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 2C8B71381F3 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2013 04:54:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 83C83E0B68; Fri, 18 Oct 2013 04:53:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f174.google.com (mail-wi0-f174.google.com [209.85.212.174]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 595B0E0ACF for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2013 04:53:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f174.google.com with SMTP id cb5so389370wib.1 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2013 21:53:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=O8bfeEG7Z7A5dZFHiJglmbM8BKuprbIqCT8BNJZ3kB8=; b=M7oB1V0BaycKJX0KjGeFzg4idLbj0Ngqs9udDeEXpCYWw/9y7ieDPzpAR0FXeHCmbN X4zdLjlsUWSXd4OJ6t09n85RoVfBKomNrZt1D2xtCfKNW9qfboiZq2gnnLdITm8rShvB ZfRdUwJyabm57FHzdgeTqNfn1XX//dPnLFuAQy+6Fzil2KKchChWq8rEjCfGYlz7A4Gv KmGlCG7Cc7P1ALx1LocACFTznwhVAfcTNMw/4/0uz0N+IJ11Oy/uB/Fw7UHD9dJFvajh dyh5cZlDktYRjyfotsPYsHrZUfsJsekfySs2TJKus3waveyvbJHXiFmp3SRqV/iW3D+O Ltig== X-Received: by 10.180.95.202 with SMTP id dm10mr700823wib.62.1382072033976; Thu, 17 Oct 2013 21:53:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (196-210-102-33.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.102.33]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id c10sm22953106wie.11.2013.10.17.21.53.52 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 17 Oct 2013 21:53:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5260BDAC.1070607@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 06:48:44 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Console won't un-blank References: <87vc0vjsru.fsf@blackwolfinfosys.net> In-Reply-To: <87vc0vjsru.fsf@blackwolfinfosys.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4422d5dd-fd66-4a25-bb22-740a680e91ae X-Archives-Hash: afa693f11dd4468082cdedabb35a7958 On 18/10/2013 03:02, 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? > What video hardware are you using, and what driver? I've had similar issues in the past myself with a variety of causes: - dodgy versions of mesa - dodgy versions of video drivers (both nouveau and radeon) - incorrect kernel settings, usually getting KMS wrong - incompatible combinations of framebuffer and KMS I don't recall any case where the problem was purely userland and the kernel systems were not involved hth -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com