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From: "Michael J. Barillier" <blackwolf@blackwolfinfosys.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Console won't un-blank
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 21:02:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vc0vjsru.fsf@blackwolfinfosys.net> (raw)

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?

-- 
Michael J. Barillier     ///    http://blackwolfinfosys.net/u/blackwolf/
_O_|  "When you have to shoot, shoot.  Don't talk."
__O|      -- Tuco Ramirez
OOO|


             reply	other threads:[~2013-10-18  1:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-18  1:02 Michael J. Barillier [this message]
2013-10-18  4:48 ` [gentoo-user] Console won't un-blank 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 ` [gentoo-user] " Peter Humphrey

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