On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 07:58:31AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Andries Brouwer wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 04:05:22PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> >
> > > How do I turn off console blanking
> >
> > Try "setterm -blank 0".
>
> Pretty hard to do without including setterm in PROM on an embedded
> system. `strace` shows that setterm just sends an escape-sequence.
Yes - that is why I didnt tell you about the ioctl.
It does not exist.
But if you are going to put things into an embedded system,
change the line
static int blankinterval = 10*60*HZ;
in console.c into
static int blankinterval = 0;
Andries
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