Re: Automatic Screen Blanking

1998-09-04 Thread Robert Lyonnais
THANK YOU for the detailed explanation. Things are working like I needed. Cheers, Robert On Thu, 03 Sep 1998 00:19:09 -0400, you wrote: SNIP >setterm is not called. The kernel itself sets this value. setterm is >merely a wrapper around a kernel call to change the timeout. As Bob >said, cre

Re: Automatic Screen Blanking

1998-09-03 Thread Shaleh
Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Robert Lyonnais wrote: > > > Thank you. > > > > Would you happen to know where this is set by default during startup? > > I would like to change the current setting but I have been unable to > > find setterm anywhere in my startup scripts. > > I'm not sure

Re: Automatic Screen Blanking

1998-09-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Robert Lyonnais wrote: > Thank you. > > Would you happen to know where this is set by default during startup? > I would like to change the current setting but I have been unable to > find setterm anywhere in my startup scripts. > > Thanks again, > > Robert > > On Wed, 02 Se

Re: Automatic Screen Blanking

1998-09-03 Thread Robert Lyonnais
Thank you. Would you happen to know where this is set by default during startup? I would like to change the current setting but I have been unable to find setterm anywhere in my startup scripts. Thanks again, Robert On Wed, 02 Sep 1998 17:42:55 -0700 (MST), you wrote: >setterm -blank n >n =

Re: Automatic Screen Blanking

1998-09-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
setterm -blank n n = blank time in minutes (0 = no blank) On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Robert Lyonnais wrote: > Where can one change the setting on a linux box to increase or > decrease the length of time before the screen goes blank after > keyboard inactivity? > > I don't mean from within X. My cons

Automatic Screen Blanking

1998-09-03 Thread Robert Lyonnais
Where can one change the setting on a linux box to increase or decrease the length of time before the screen goes blank after keyboard inactivity? I don't mean from within X. My console goes blank whether or not I'm logged in. I am using Debian 2.0. Thanks, Robert