From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S273035AbTGaOZ0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 10:25:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S273041AbTGaOZ0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 10:25:26 -0400 Received: from kinesis.swishmail.com ([209.10.110.86]:43785 "HELO kinesis.swishmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S273035AbTGaOZV (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 10:25:21 -0400 Message-ID: <3F29296E.6000602@techsource.com> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 10:36:30 -0400 From: Timothy Miller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ville Herva CC: Zwane Mwaikambo , "Richard B. Johnson" , James Simmons , Charles Lepple , Linux kernel Subject: Re: Turning off automatic screen clanking References: <20030730052213.GU150921@niksula.cs.hut.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ville Herva wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 08:17:15PM -0400, you [Zwane Mwaikambo] wrote: > 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? Why don't we borrow a trick from my old Atari 8-bit computer. Instead of blanking, cycle the colors. Best of both worlds: You save your monitor AND you get to see what's on the screen.