From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272764AbTG3For (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2003 01:44:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272765AbTG3For (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2003 01:44:47 -0400 Received: from pop017pub.verizon.net ([206.46.170.210]:44192 "EHLO pop017.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272764AbTG3Fop (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2003 01:44:45 -0400 From: Gene Heskett Reply-To: gene.heskett@verizon.net To: Ville Herva , Zwane Mwaikambo Subject: Re: Turning off automatic screen clanking Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 01:44:40 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 Cc: "Richard B. Johnson" , James Simmons , Charles Lepple , Linux kernel References: <20030730052213.GU150921@niksula.cs.hut.fi> In-Reply-To: <20030730052213.GU150921@niksula.cs.hut.fi> Organization: None that appears to be detectable by casual observers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307300144.40691.gene.heskett@verizon.net> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at pop017.verizon.net from [151.205.10.84] at Wed, 30 Jul 2003 00:44:43 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 30 July 2003 01:22, Ville Herva wrote: >On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 08:17:15PM -0400, you [Zwane Mwaikambo] wrote: >> On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Richard B. Johnson wrote: >> > If the machine had blanking disabled by default, then the >> > usual SYS-V startup scripts could execute setterm to enable >> > it IFF it was wanted. >> >> optimise for the common case, > >I would argue the other way around. The majority of desktop users > run X, console blanking won't help them anyway. The server users > tend to have KVM or switch monitor cables on the fly - in most such > cases console blanking hurts more than helps (since you can't tell > which box is connected to which monitor etc.) > >And console blanking is not real DPMS power save anyway. > >> just fix your box and be done with it. > >Most times when you need to have it fixed is when your box has > mysteriously locked up, and you'd wan't to know if there was a oops > on the screen. No can do - the console is already blanked. By then > it is too late to fix it. > >In what cases is console blanking so hugely important these days, > anyway? I feel like I should concur here, as console blanking has bit me more than once. A compile time option, grub/lilo append, whatever, but in any event it should be unconditionally disableable if one so chooses. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.