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

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" at the command line and it > will spit

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. "setterm -blank 0" kent -- I'd really love ta wa

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 all your files.

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 "xset s 0" on the list. You ca

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 screen doesn't blan