Messages in this thread | | | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: Turning off automatic screen clanking | Date | Wed, 30 Jul 2003 01:44:40 -0400 |
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On Wednesday 30 July 2003 01:22, Ville Herva wrote: >On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 08:17:15PM -0400, you [Zwane Mwaikambo] wrote: >> On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Richard B. Johnson wrote: >> > If the machine had blanking disabled by default, then the >> > usual SYS-V startup scripts could execute setterm to enable >> > it IFF it was wanted. >> >> optimise for the common case, > >I would argue the other way around. The majority of desktop users > run X, console blanking won't help them anyway. The server users > tend to have KVM or switch monitor cables on the fly - in most such > cases console blanking hurts more than helps (since you can't tell > which box is connected to which monitor etc.) > >And console blanking is not real DPMS power save anyway. > >> just fix your box and be done with it. > >Most times when you need to have it fixed is when your box has > mysteriously locked up, and you'd wan't to know if there was a oops > on the screen. No can do - the console is already blanked. By then > it is too late to fix it. > >In what cases is console blanking so hugely important these days, > anyway?
I feel like I should concur here, as console blanking has bit me more than once. A compile time option, grub/lilo append, whatever, but in any event it should be unconditionally disableable if one so chooses.
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