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From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Cc: clepple@ghz.cc, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Turning off automatic screen clanking
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 09:53:23 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0307290950001.1696@chaos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <UTC200307291302.h6TD2q310517.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl>

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:

>     Yes. This is f*ing absurb. A default that kills the screen and the
>     requirement to send some @!_$%!@$ sequences to turn it off. This
>     is absolute crap, absolutely positively, with no possible justification
>     whatsoever. If I made an ioctl, it will probably be rejected.........
>
> What language. What about the below (not compiled, not tested)?
>
[SNIPPED...]

I think you need to call poke_blanked_console() after setting the
blanking interval. Also this won't patch on 2.4.20 because the
header file is different. Anyway, I will try it after I take a
work-break.


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.20 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
            Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-29 13:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-29 13:02 Turning off automatic screen clanking Andries.Brouwer
2003-07-29 13:53 ` Richard B. Johnson [this message]
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     [not found]       ` <fmBF.48z.41@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]         ` <fotH.5J2.17@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-31 20:08 Petr Vandrovec
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
2003-07-29 13:56 Andries.Brouwer
2003-07-28 20:00 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
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

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