Re: console blanking and cdrom issue

2005-12-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Vikas BN wrote: On 12/8/05, *Hugo Vanwoerkom* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Did you google for that blank console? That was covered in the list just a few days ago. I did google before posting, but couldn't find anything relevant, just anothe

Re: console blanking and cdrom issue

2005-12-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Vikas BN wrote: Hi folks, I installed Sarge from a DVD, then "dist-upgard"ed to sid. After that i installed the 2.6.14 kernel image. Now i have 2 issues, 1. i changed the "kernel" line in /boot/grub/menu.lst from /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.14-1-686 root=/dev/sda6 ro to /boo

console blanking and cdrom issue

2005-12-08 Thread Vikas BN
Hi folks,   I installed Sarge from a DVD, then "dist-upgard"ed to sid.  After that i installed the 2.6.14 kernel image. Now i have 2 issues,  1. i changed the "kernel" line in /boot/grub/menu.lst   from    /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.14-1-686 root=/dev/sda6 ro   to /boot/vmlinuz-2.

Re: disabling console blanking

2004-12-23 Thread John covici
Is there any config parameter to prevent the console tools from changing the screen size -- I use things like vga=15440 at boot time, but if I allow the console-screen.sh to execute, I get some very reduced dimensions, anyway to tell it to leave it alone? on Friday 12/24/2004 martin f krafft([EMAI

Re: disabling console blanking

2004-12-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Andrea Vettorello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.23.1426 +0100]: > You can try to look in /etc/console-tools/config Good hint, BLANK_TIME=0 POWERDOWN_TIME=0 BLANK_DPMS=on did the trick. also sprach Dave Ewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.23.1434 +0100]: > setterm -blank 0 > sett

Re: disabling console blanking

2004-12-23 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thursday 23 December 2004 07:16 am, martin f krafft wrote: > I have a 2.6.5 machine in my basement, with CONFIG_PM disabled. > Unfortunately, it started freezing on me recently, Check the cpu fan? daveA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: disabling console blanking

2004-12-23 Thread Dave Ewart
On Thursday, 23.12.2004 at 13:16 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > I have a 2.6.5 machine in my basement, with CONFIG_PM disabled. > Unfortunately, it started freezing on me recently, and so I would > like to find out if it prints anything to the screen just before. > However, this seems to be impos

Re: disabling console blanking

2004-12-23 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:16:35 +0100, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a 2.6.5 machine in my basement, with CONFIG_PM disabled. > Unfortunately, it started freezing on me recently, and so I would > like to find out if it prints anything to the screen just before. > However, this se

disabling console blanking

2004-12-23 Thread martin f krafft
I have a 2.6.5 machine in my basement, with CONFIG_PM disabled. Unfortunately, it started freezing on me recently, and so I would like to find out if it prints anything to the screen just before. However, this seems to be impossible, as the console blanks itself after a couple of minutes. As said,

Re: APM console blanking

2001-06-21 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 09:13:40PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 05:53:17PM -0700, Brian McGroarty wrote: > > Thanks, setterm sure looks like where it should be, but no good > > so far. And unfortunately, this is a DVI display with no > > workable off switch, so this really n

Re: APM console blanking

2001-06-21 Thread Rick Pasotto
; > apm=on > > > to the kernel command line. > > > > > > How do I enable apm console blanking? I'm not using X on > > this > > > system, and I'd like to power off the display after 5 > > minutes of > > > no mouse/keyboard. > >

Re: APM console blanking

2001-06-21 Thread Brian McGroarty
--- Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:51:10PM -0700, Brian McGroarty > wrote: > > I'm using the stock potato 2.2.19 kernel and I've added > apm=on > > to the kernel command line. > > > > How do I enable apm conso

Re: APM console blanking

2001-06-21 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:51:10PM -0700, Brian McGroarty wrote: > I'm using the stock potato 2.2.19 kernel and I've added apm=on > to the kernel command line. > > How do I enable apm console blanking? I'm not using X on this > system, and I'd like to power off

Re: APM console blanking

2001-06-21 Thread D-Man
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:51:10PM -0700, Brian McGroarty wrote: | I'm using the stock potato 2.2.19 kernel and I've added apm=on | to the kernel command line. | | How do I enable apm console blanking? I'm not using X on this | system, and I'd like to power off the display aft

APM console blanking

2001-06-20 Thread Brian McGroarty
I'm using the stock potato 2.2.19 kernel and I've added apm=on to the kernel command line. How do I enable apm console blanking? I'm not using X on this system, and I'd like to power off the display after 5 minutes of no mouse/keyboard. _

Re: preventing console blanking

2001-04-20 Thread ktb
On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 05:44:14PM -0400, M. Jackson Wilkinson wrote: > > Basically, the topic says it all... > > how to I prevent the console from blanking after a period of time... my > system has been incredibly unstable lately, and when it stalls and the > screen blanks, I have no hope of any

preventing console blanking

2001-04-20 Thread M. Jackson Wilkinson
Basically, the topic says it all... how to I prevent the console from blanking after a period of time... my system has been incredibly unstable lately, and when it stalls and the screen blanks, I have no hope of any panic outputs or anything. Jack -- M. Jackson Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jo

Re: Console Blanking

2001-01-17 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, will trillich wrote: > how do you establish screen-blanking preferences for text consoles, > when there's NO x installed at all? setterm is what you need. setterm -blank (and setterm -powersave) allow you to control this.

Re: Console Blanking

2001-01-17 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 08:58:55PM -0600, ktb wrote: > On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 07:40:03PM -0700, Curtis Hogg wrote: > > Is there a way to disable the console blanking? If so, how do you go > > about doing that? > > It looks like "xset s noblank" Type "xset&quo

Re: Console Blanking

2001-01-16 Thread ktb
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 08:05:46PM -0700, Curtis Hogg wrote: > cherry-chan:~# xset s noblank > xset: unable to open display "" > > i want to disable the text console blanking... i don't run X on the > machine in question... > Sorry didn't read. "set

Re: Console Blanking

2001-01-16 Thread Curtis Hogg
cherry-chan:~# xset s noblank xset: unable to open display "" i want to disable the text console blanking... i don't run X on the machine in question... -- Curtis Hogg [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I came, I saw, I deleted

Re: Console Blanking

2001-01-16 Thread ktb
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 07:40:03PM -0700, Curtis Hogg wrote: > Is there a way to disable the console blanking? If so, how do you go > about doing that? > It looks like "xset s noblank" Type "xset" at the command line and it will spit out options. I have also seen

Console Blanking

2001-01-16 Thread Curtis Hogg
Is there a way to disable the console blanking? If so, how do you go about doing that? -- Curtis Hogg [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I came, I saw, I deleted all your files. -- Email 1 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email 2

Re: console blanking

1997-11-13 Thread robert havoc pennington
On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Syd Alsobrook wrote: > How does one turn off the console blanking so that the x-windows > screen saver is on all the time? > I think I did this: xset s off#don't blank the screen in my .xsession. At least, I have that in my .xsession and my

console blanking

1997-11-12 Thread Syd Alsobrook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How does one turn off the console blanking so that the x-windows screen saver is on all the time? thanks -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNGoxeSwk