Monitor black after 10 Minutes

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 04:13:31PM +0200, Steven Scholz wrote:
> Paul Fox wrote:
> >  > As another post said - nothing to do with BusyBox. But it's the kernel 
> >  > that's doing this. I compiled ncurses, then setterm from util-linux and 
> >  > used the command 'setterm -blank 0'. This is the heavy handed way of 
> >  > doing things.
> > 
> > yes, that's a lot of work :-), since in the end all setterm does is
> > emit the previously mentioned escape sequence.  ( "ESC [ 9 ; 0 ]" )
> > 
> >     TERM=linux setterm -blank 0 | hexdump -C
> 
> But this all only works if I am actually working on this terminal!?
> 
> I do have a frame buffer console (VT) with no keyboard, but use the serial
> console.

If "setterm -blank 0 | hexdump -C" works, then "setterm -blank 0 >
/dev/tty0" should also work.


Hamish
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