On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 09:12:15PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: > How do I shut off the screen blanking in a console? Screen blanking used to > work fine but I installed a new motherboard (Can't remember brand (SOYO?) > but now when the screen blanks and stays blanked over night it locks up my > computer and I have to turn the power off and reboot. I want to turn the > screen blanking off and see if this keeps the computer from locking up > or whether the problem lies somewhere else.
I had this problem with an old 486. In my case it was solved by upgrading the kernel to 2.2.13 It seemed to be a memory leak that was causing my problem, as I found that if I killed off some of the various daemons that were running it would last longer before locking up.
