Hello Argentium, At 2000-03-06 05:24, you wrote:

Does anyone know where the setting is that controls the screen blank for the 6 TTY consoles?

I've got some logs displayed by the distributed.net client and proxy on one machine, and I'd like to just be able to look at the screen and see what it's doing without having to plug in a keyboard and hit a key.

setterm -blank 0 hould do the trick, but i haven't found this setting in any /etc startup file, so i guess it's some hard built-in default value (10 minutes or so, perhaps even in console.c?). The Keyboard and Console HowTo, http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO-19.html ays: " 19. Screensaving etterm -blank nn will tell the console driver to blank the screen after nn minutes of inactivity. (With nn = 0, screensaving is turned off. In some old kernels this first took effect after the next keyboard interrupt.) The s option of xset(1) will set the X screensaving parameters: xset s off turns off the screensaver, xset s 10 blanks the screen after 10 minutes. The video hardware powersaving modes can be enabled/disabled using the setvesablank program given in the starting comment of /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/vesa_blank.c. " Bye-bye, Eric Maryniak -- Eric Maryniak Home page: http://pobox.com/~e.maryniak/ University of Amsterdam, Department of Psychology. Tel/Fax: +31 20 5256853/6391656. Internet: http://www.neuromod.org/ My software never has bugs. It just develops random featur zero division: core dumped. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

Hi, On Sun, Mar 05 2000 at 22:24 -0600, Argentium G. Tiger wrote:

Does anyone know where the setting is that controls the screen blank for the 6 TTY consoles?

I've got some logs displayed by the distributed.net client and proxy on one machine, and I'd like to just be able to look at the screen and see what it's doing without having to plug in a keyboard and hit a key.

You can place a for i in `seq 1 6`; do setterm -term linux -blank 0 >/dev/tty$i done in /sbin/init.d/boot.local to turn screen blanking of the first 6 consoles off. Ciao, Stefan -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/