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From: jw schultz <jw@pegasys.ws>
To: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Turning off automatic screen clanking
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 23:03:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030730060337.GH9836@pegasys.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0307292015580.11053@montezuma.mastecende.com>

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 08:17:15PM -0400, 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, just fix your box and be done with it.

To borrow from the medical community: "First, do no harm."

There is harm in having blanking enabled during the boot
sequence as well as later.  There is very little harm in no
screen blanking at all.  There is no harm in deferring the
entablement of screen blanking until some time in the RC
scripts where it can be prevented by those who know better.

There is no need for auto-blanking to be a boot parameter if
it defaults to off.  Boot parameters are the least optimal
treatment of this issue.

The common case of which you speak is the least optimised
environment you're likely to find.


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________________________________________________________________
	J.W. Schultz            Pegasystems Technologies
	email address:		jw@pegasys.ws

		Remember Cernan and Schmitt

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-07-30  6:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-28 20:00 Turning off automatic screen clanking Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-28 20:01 ` Ben Collins
2003-07-28 20:08 ` Frank v Waveren
2003-07-28 20:25   ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-28 20:45     ` Charles Lepple
2003-07-29 11:06       ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-29 16:51         ` James Simmons
2003-07-29 17:01           ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-29 17:54           ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-29 18:31             ` Alan Cox
2003-07-30  0:17             ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-07-30  1:25               ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-30  1:37                 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-07-30  7:14                   ` Alex Riesen
2003-07-30  8:00                     ` David Lang
2003-07-31 14:33                   ` Timothy Miller
2003-07-31 14:57                     ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-07-31 15:20                       ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-31 21:41                         ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-08-01 15:25                           ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-01 17:11                             ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-07-30  1:40                 ` Petr Vandrovec
2003-07-30  2:35                   ` Petr Vandrovec
2003-07-30  5:22               ` Ville Herva
2003-07-30  5:44                 ` Gene Heskett
2003-07-31 14:36                 ` Timothy Miller
2003-07-31 16:20                   ` Herbert Pötzl
2003-07-31 16:56                     ` Mike Dresser
2003-07-31 19:55                     ` Timothy Miller
2003-07-31 23:35                       ` Ian Hastie
2003-07-30  6:03               ` jw schultz [this message]
2003-07-30  2:16             ` Miles Bader
2003-07-30  5:45               ` jw schultz
2003-07-28 20:19 ` Samuel Thibault
2003-07-28 20:27 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-29 13:02 Andries.Brouwer
2003-07-29 13:53 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-29 13:56 Andries.Brouwer
2003-07-30  6:14 Erik Andersen
2003-07-30 13:07 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-31 19:15   ` Norberto BENSA
2003-07-31 21:50     ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-07-31 20:08 Petr Vandrovec
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     [not found]           ` <frB6.8gE.7@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-08-03 10:40             ` Julien Oster
2003-08-04  0:56               ` Ian Hastie
2003-08-05 18:52               ` Timothy Miller

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