Thank you that what I was looking for ... I dont want to add 20k for the
setterm app.
Patrick Allaire
mailto:pallaire@gameloft.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Love [mailto:rml@tech9.net]
> Sent: August 27, 2001 5:14 PM
> To: Patrick Allaire
> Cc: Linux Kernel List
> Subject: Re: How to disable blanking of the screen in the kernel ?
>
>
> On Mon, 2001-08-27 at 16:50, Patrick Allaire wrote:
> > I am on a 2.2.19 kernel. I am doing an embedded box and I
> want to disable
> > the console blanking ... how can I do that ? I dont have
> apm support in the
> > kernel. there is no X on the box ...
>
> the userspace solution is simply `setterm -blank 0'
>
> if you dont want setterm, I wager it just uses an ioctl to set the
> appropriate option.
>
> if you want to disable it permanently, take a look around
> drivers/char/console.c
>
> there is a
> static int blankinterval = 10*60*HZ;
> setting that to 0 should do the job. you could take it
> further and rip
> out some of the *blank* functions that you wont be needing,
> to make your
> kernel smaller.
>
> --
> Robert M. Love
> rml at ufl.edu
> rml at tech9.net
>
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