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SubjectRe: [PATCH] vt: disable console blanking by default
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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