On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 10:48:45AM -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
My turn to ask a question for once:
Does anyone know the mechanism to stop the console from blanking the video? Not the X screensaver (that's easy), I mean the one that controls the virtual consoles. I know it seems weird, but we're chasing a subtle bug and can't put a serial console on the beast.
According to console_codes, I think sending an "ESC[9;0]" (ESC=0x1b) does it but I'm not certain. Any suggestions are highly welcomed.
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Thats what "man console_codes" reports, though there's no elucidation. You may also need to invoke "ESC[14;0]" to keep it from powering down the monitor, if that's possible.
Thanks, Bob. I think "setterm -blank 0" is what I was looking for. See my second post. I can't belive I didn't remember that!
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