[H-GEN] oddities in console

[Ben Fowler]

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Michael Anthon wrote:
>>The problems do not relate to X, also the do not apply if you are not
>>using the kernels vga console driver. Do you know the configuation of
>>your kernel?
> Here's a thought.. is it possible to disable the screen saver function of
> the console driver?  Perhaps it is having trouble recovering from that.  If
> it is possible to disable that you may also see any messages that might
> happen to be printed to the console.

Is this what you're looking for?


[fowlerb at reptile] fowlerb$ setterm
setterm: Argument error, usage

setterm
   [ -term terminal_name ]
   [ -reset ]
   [ -initialize ]

:
:
   [ -blank [0-60] ]
:
:
   [ -powersave [on|vsync|hsync|powerdown|off] ]
   [ -powerdown [0-60] ]


I've been able to do various things to tweak the 'power off' and 'blank' 
settings of my console using these commands.

-regards,

Ben.

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