From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271996AbTG2SjX (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:39:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271997AbTG2SjX (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:39:23 -0400 Received: from crosslink-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.254]:28403 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271996AbTG2SjW (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:39:22 -0400 Subject: Re: Turning off automatic screen clanking From: Alan Cox To: root@chaos.analogic.com Cc: James Simmons , Charles Lepple , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1059503513.6095.34.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 29 Jul 2003 19:31:53 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Maw, 2003-07-29 at 18:54, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > No. There are no ANSI, nor DEC nor AT&T nor IRIS, nor IBM, nor any > other terminals that have screen-blanking capabilities. These are > the inventions of later-date emulations. If my DEC VT-220 screen > went blank I would need to have it serviced. Quite a few of the terminals did have their own screenblank, certainly post vt220 it was very common. However nobody really used escape codes for it. Screenblank existed to protect the display and the display spent most of its time -not- logged into a system.