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SubjectRe: [PATCH] vt: disable console blanking by default
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On Wednesday 25 of June 2014, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> 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.

3. unblank & disable blanking on any oops? (probably problematic)

Anyway I dislike blanking here, too.

> Alan


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