Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Jun 2014 13:39:30 +0100 | From | One Thousand Gnomes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] vt: disable console blanking by default |
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On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 11:27:31 +0200 Tomasz Torcz <tomek@pipebreaker.pl> wrote:
> > >From ea7cf47e3230eda63aa6c46092719437f9bbae8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Tomasz Torcz <tomek@pipebreaker.pl> > Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 11:18:06 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH] vt: disable console blanking by default > > Remove default 10 minute blank interval. Instead: never blank by > default. > "Screensaving" is no longer useful. Today it only provides > obstacle when interacting with text console, especially through > remote lights-out management solutions.
Screensaving is extremely useful as is power management, and power prices are going up not down. We don't customise the upstream kernel just because J Random User happens to want his defaults.
There are a couple of things you can sensibly do
1. Just turn it off in software. It's run time configurable via setterm
2. If you have a reliable way of detecting the presence of a remote console device and that device supports reporting when a connection is made/broken you could submit a patch to make it unblank on connect.
Alan
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