On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> 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
>
Yes. Do you think there is a need for such an ioctl()? Or, more
particularily, if I made one would it get put into the kernel?
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.3.41 on an i686 machine (800.63 BogoMips).
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